Bank strike today: Alert customers! Banking services to be hit due to the nationwide strike on August 28

All India Bank strike today, August 28: Banking services and transactions might remain affected nationwide on Wednesday, August 28, as the All India Bank Employees Association has called for a nationwide strike today.

The AIBEA nationwide strike today has been carried out to protest against the action of Bank of India in charge-sheeting thirteen office bearers of the Bank staff union.

Bank Strike today

CH Venkatchalam, General Secretary of AIBEA, updated the media about the Bank Strike today and shared a press release of the association mentioning its demand from the government.

“AIBEA’s call for strike on 28th August, 2024, Against political attack on trade union AIBOC–NCBE–BEFI–AIBOA–INBOC–INBEF extend support,” Venkatchalam wrote in a post on X.

Today's bank strike would be joined by the members of nearly five other bank unions including United Forum of Bank Unions, All India Bank Officers Confederation, the National Confederation of Bank Employees, the Bank Employees Federation of India, the All India Bank Officers Associatoon, etc.

Are banks closed today?

So far, there has been no official information or confirmation about the bank strike apart from the press release shared by CH Venkatchalam on X. Customers are advised to confirm before planning their visit to their nearby branches of SBI, ICICI, HDFC and other banks. 

Why is there a bank strike today?

The AIBEA called for a nationwide strike in retaliation to Bank of India's action against its thirteen officers for attending the 23rd Biennial Conference of the Bank of India Staff Union-Kerala. The BOI had served chargesheets to 13 office bearers of Bank of India Staff Union Kerala. In its press release, the AIBEA called the bank strike on August 28th an attempt of the union to raise voice against the “political interference ad political attack on the Union and the vindictive actions taken against the union leaders in Bank of India Staff Union, Kerala.”

Several other bank unions also extended their support to the bank strike, calling management's action against union officers an attempt to weaken and “destabilise the organised labour in the banking industry, under the guise of national security concerns.”