Pressure on employees. Threats to probationary officers. Messages to customers. Campaigns to turn public opinion against bankers.
All this effort to make a strike look insignificant.
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 “𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹” 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 “𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲” 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿.🤷🏻♂️💔
To every banker facing pressure: 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨.✊
If one collective voice can shake the system, imagine what united bankers can change.
𝟱-𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗢𝗪! ✊
#FBOIOA #UFBU #5DayBankingNow
For the first time, witnessing a strike called by top Union Leaders but Led by Ordinary Members.
Attempt by DFS to divide bankers over PLI, coupled with social media posts to defame Bankers, have angered the workforce on a large scale.
It's becoming movement driven Strike.
Bankers are demanding five days work week.. and the system is still not listening. This is the story of why they must.
In memory of my dear friend, Durgesh Ranjan, 40, Branch Manager, of a PSB somewhere in Rural North India.
The last time we spoke, his voice was tired but glowing. He told me about the PMJJBY loans he had disbursed to the needy, how the villagers treated him like their own elder, how he called his job his life's purpose.
"Through this chair, this stamp, these papers, I get to do good for society," he said. He meant every word. He always did.
On the night of 24th September, Durgesh was found dead in his car on the Lucknow–Varanasi highway. Police recovered a letter he left behind.
The letter said: "I am ending my life myself. No one should be blamed for this. I apologise to everyone."
Even in his final moments, he was apologising. The kindest people always do.
His wife, told police he had been under stress for about a week. One week of visible stress, and behind it, years of invisible weight. A branch manager's chair in a PSB today carries impossible targets, endless audits, relentless calls, seven days of duty disguised as a job.
Durgesh never complained. Not once. He carried it all quietly, completely, alone.
He didn't fall because he was weak. He fell because he was asked to be strong every single day, without rest, without pause, without anyone saying: "Enough. Go home. Live your life."
A five-day work week is not a luxury. It is not laziness. It is not entitlement.
It is oxygen. The villagers didn't respect Durgesh because he worked seven days. They respected him because he was kind, patient, and present. A banker who has rested can serve with heart. Bankers hold entire communities together, but who holds the bankers?
Nearly 90 bank employee deaths and suicides have been reported since 2014. Durgesh is no longer just a statistic to us. He was a friend. A son. A husband. A man who helped forty-seven families sleep peacefully while his own sleep was stolen by files and targets.
No more Durgesh Ranjans. No more families shattered by a system that keeps asking for more. No public sector bank employee should ever suffer this fate again.
Five days of work. Two days of life. They deserve it. *He deserved it.
Rest in peace, brother. You should still be sitting behind that counter, laughing with your villagers, calling me at midnight about the forty-eighth family you helped.
We will keep telling your story until the rules finally change. 🙏
- As told by Ram
Names changed to protect identity.
सच में काला ही दिन है।
यहां बैंक को कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ेगा उनके बैंक अधिकारी के मरने से। उनके लिए तो हम सिर्फ नंबर है।
मगर इनका परिवार तो प्रभावित क्या पूरी तरह से टूट गया।
काश बैंक इसको समझ सकता।
रविवार काल बन गया।
Guys,
I know many of u aren't happy with this Sunday working but this is not the right time to troll @rupamsmail@ChVenkatachalam or any Leader.
Stand right behind them..u are going to do something historical.
Hum Jeetenge ye ladayi agar sab milke ache se ladenge.
#BankStrike
मीडिया को लोकतंत्र का चौथा स्तंभ कहा जाता है। कल बैंकर्स के खिलाफ तरह-तरह के पेड नैरेटिव चलाए गए, उन्हें कटघरे में खड़ा करने की कोशिश हुई। लेकिन आज दैनिक जागरण के जनमत ने जनता की राय सामने रख दी।
सवाल था: “क्या बैंक कर्मियों की 3 दिन की हड़ताल सही है?”
🔴 95.4% — हाँ
⚫ 3.9% — नहीं
⚪ 0.7% — कह नहीं सकते
Paid नैरेटिव अपनी जगह, जनमत अपनी जगह।
जनता ने अपनी राय दे दी।
जनता को सलाम 🙏
और @JagranNews का धन्यवाद, जिसने यह जनमत सामने रखा।
#5DaysBankingNow
@SushantBSinha@idesibanda@kmarkri
बैंक कर्मचारी भी किसी के बेटे-बेटी हैं, किसी के पति-पत्नी हैं, किसी के माता-पिता हैं।
वे काम से भागना नहीं चाहते।
वे बस इतना चाहते हैं कि नौकरी करते-करते उनकी जिंदगी खत्म न हो जाए।
लगातार बढ़ता काम , स्टाफ की कमी , टारगेट का दबाव, लंबे working hours और ट्रांसफर का तनाव इन सबका असर सिर्फ कर्मचारी पर नहीं, उसके पूरे परिवार पर पड़ता है।
इसलिए बैंक कर्मचारियों की मांगें बिल्कुल साफ हैं 👇
• 8 घंटे की शिफ्ट और तय working hours लागू हों।
• ऑफिस के बाद अनावश्यक कॉल, WhatsApp और काम का दबाव बंद हो।
• स्टाफ की पर्याप्त भर्ती हो, ताकि मौजूदा कर्मचारियों पर अतिरिक्त बोझ न पड़े।
• टारगेट तय करते समय मानवीय और व्यावहारिक मानक अपनाए जाएं।
• टारगेट पूरा न होने पर अपमान, धमकी या अनावश्यक मानसिक दबाव की व्यवस्था खत्म हो।
• ट्रांसफर नीति पारदर्शी हो और परिवार/स्वास्थ्य जैसी परिस्थितियों का ध्यान रखा जाए।
• कर्मचारियों को उनकी छुट्टियां और साप्ताहिक अवकाश वास्तव में मिलें।
• मेंटल हेल्थ काउंसलिंग और confidential support system हर बैंक में उपलब्ध हो।
• लगातार ओवरटाइम को सामान्य व्यवस्था बनाने के बजाय उसका उचित रिकॉर्ड और नियमन हो।
• कर्मचारियों की शिकायतों के लिए स्वतंत्र grievance mechanism हो, जहां बिना डर शिकायत की जा सके।
और समाज से भी एक छोटी-सी अपील है कि
बैंक कर्मचारी सिर्फ आपकी पासबुक , लोन, कैश या UPI की समस्या हल करने वाला व्यक्ति नहीं है।
वह भी एक इंसान है।
उसे भी थकान होती है।
उसे भी तनाव होता है।
उसे भी अपने परिवार के साथ समय बिताना है।
इसलिए अगली बार किसी बैंक कर्मचारी को चाय पीते या लंच करते देखकर मज़ाक बनाने से पहले एक बार सोचिए ....
हो सकता है उस 15 मिनट के ब्रेक के पीछे 10 घंटे की थकान छिपी हो।
बैंक कर्मचारियों को सहानुभूति नहीं,
सम्मानजनक काम का माहौल और लागू होने वाली ठोस व्यवस्था चाहिए। 🙏
@nsitharamanoffc@DFS_India@PMOIndia
Manufacturing a perception won’t manufacture reality. Open a few branches. Click a few photographs. Showcase a few transactions and declare that “everything is normal.”
Who are you trying to convince? The public or yourselves?
A managed photo-op cannot erase a nationwide strike or the voice of thousands of employees. Perception may be manufactured. But the resolve of the workforce cannot.
#UFBU #AIBOC
When there is no timeline, there must be no dilution of our resolve.
The message from the Comrades is clear:
5-Day Banking must be implemented without further delay.
28–30 September 2026 — let our unity, discipline and determination speak.
One demand. One voice. One united struggle.
#5DayBankingNow #PSUBanks #UFBU #AIBOC #FBOIOA
@fboioa_india@nilesh_pawar15@aiboc_in@UFBUIndia
@UnionBankTweets@UnionBankTweets Do not talk only about number of recruitments. Give full data on how many retired, resigned , Expired , contractual Employees etc.. Business have been doubled. Workload is Tripled. A branch having 12 staff is now manning only 6. But Single man handling 3 pax work