Bank Strike in India

Bank employees shout slogans during a two-day strike in Mumbai, India. Employees of public sector banks began a two-day nation wide strike starting on 22 August 2012 to protest against proposed reforms that would ease mergers and allow more private capital, including foreign investment, in the banking sector. The strike will involve about one million employees and affect 70,000 bank branches of state-run and some private and foreign banks including the country's biggest lender, State Bank of India. Photo courtesy Rafiq Maqbool---NNN