A union that represents mostly clerks and typists at India's central bank has called a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest against job losses and outsourcing of work, a senior union official said on Monday. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) staff dropped to 21,900 at the end of 2006 from about 22,200 a year earlier, and has further shrunk to about 19,000, said Samir Ghosh, general secretary of the All India Reserve Bank of India Employees' Association.
"While the RBI is handing out bank licenses and upgrading its technology on one hand, on the other it is reducing employee strength and outsourcing jobs," Ghosh told Reuters over telephone from his office in the eastern city of Kolkata.
He said the union has about 10,000 members across the country. About 600,000 workers at state-run commercial banks are also expected to strike on Wednesday to protest mergers between state banks, a union official said last week. Banks are closed on Tuesday for a holiday, and the strikes could disrupt operations on Wednesday.
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