UFBU CIRCULAR NO.1 : “We congratulate all our unions and members all over the
country for their enthusiastic response to our agitational programme demanding
introduction of 5 Days Banking and declaring the remaining two Saturdays as
holidays as agreed between IBA and UFBU and as committed in our wage revision
Settlement in March, 2024.
Demonstrations have been largely participated by the employees and officers in all
the centres. Badge Wearing was successfully implemented by all our members.
The X/Twitter campaign was also a superhit programme. As per reports, our
Hashtag #5DayBankingNow had 18,80,027 impressions and there were about
2,85,200 tweets. We congratulate all our units and members for this
commendable success.
But, it is unfortunate that the Government is not responding to our programmes
and our genuine demand. There would be no loss of manhours because we have
agreed for extra 40 minutes working per day from Monday to Friday. Already RBI,
LIC, GIC, etc., are working for 5 days a week. Foreign exchange market, money
market, stock exchanges, etc. are not working on Saturdays. Central and State
Government offices are not working on Saturdays. Hence there is no reason why
banks cannot introduce 5 days banking. But yet, Government is sitting tight on the
recommendations of IBA for introduction of 5 days banking which was agreed in
the bipartite settlement in March, 2024.
Hence it has been decided to give the call for All India Strike in all the
Banks on 27th January, 2026. March on and make the strike a success.”
