AIBEA to hold Dharna before Parliament on 10th December 2025 and Strike in January

All India Bank Employees’ Association (AIBEA) has announced to hold Dharna before Parliament on 10th December 2025.

Convention of Unions in Private Sector Banks was held at Aluva in Kerala on 25th and 26th August, 2025. 160 delegates from all unions affiliated to AIBEA in the private sector banks (Federal Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Karnataka Bank, RBL Bank, Nainital Bank, CSB Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank, Tamilnad Mercantile Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC Bank) participated in the Convention.

With the guidance of AIBEA and after full-scale deliberations, the Convention decided to launch agitational programmes on their demands as under:

Demands:

1. Nationalise all private banks
2. Adequate recruitment of regular clerical and substaff cadre
3. Reverse victimisations in Federal Bank
4. Early wage revision in CSB Bank
5. Extend Ex-gratia to pensioners in all private Banks
6. Do not sell Nainital Bank. Merge it with Bank of Baroda
7. Extend retirement age upto 60 in Tamilnad Mercantile Bank
8. Convert all C2C employees as regular employees
9. CBDT exempted Pension Fund in private banks

Programme Schedule of Dharna

• From 1st Sept. 2025 – Campaign and explanatory meetings
• 20 to 30-9-2025 – Memorandum to MDs of all Private Banks
• 7-10-2025 – Badge Wearing
• 14-10-2025 – Demonstrations in all centres under the banner of State Federations
• 3-11-2025 – Demonstrations/Dharna before Head Offices of Banks
• 11-11-2025 – Demonstrations in all centres under the banner of State Federations
• 17-11-2025 – Deputation – Memorandum to IBA
• 8-12-2025 – Demonstrations in all centres under the banner of State Federations
• 10-12-2025 – Massive Dharna before Parliament
• January, 2026 – Announcing the date for All India Strike

AIBEA said – All these demands are not only the demands of our Unions in private sector Banks, but are the demands of AIBEA as a whole. Hence all our Unions are requested to extend all possible help and assistance to our units in Private Sector Banks in the respective centres in implementing these programmes.