Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh to lead bank and coal sector strikes this week

The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the trade union affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has announced support to the two-day strike call in the banking sector on Thursday and Friday.

The BMS is also taking part in Tuesday’s one-day strike in Coal India Limited and Singareni Collieries Company. It will launch a countrywide “mass movement” and awareness programme against disinvestment of public sector undertakings, or PSUs, from September 25 to October 2.

In the third week of August, the BMS had joined hands with other central trade unions to oppose corporatisation of the ordnance factory board.

The BMS has upped the ante