Why the two-day strike by PSU bank staff won’t be the last of the protests Why the two-day strike by PSU bank staff won’t be the last of the protests | India Today Insight The government’s plans to privatise two state-owned banks has staff unions seeing red advertisement UPDATED: March 17, 2021 00:37 IST Bank employees protest against the move to privatise public sector banks, at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, 15th March (Rajwant Rawat) The strike by hundreds of thousands of employees in the public banking sector for two days, March 15 and 16, which has disrupted services across the country, is the first major nation-wide strike related to bank privatisation plans after they were announced in the Union Budget on February 1 this year. Going by the nature of the issue, these protests will not be the last.