If officers can unionise, can bank executives also take part in strikes?

For long, banks' managements resisted officers' attempts to unionise

The recent spate of strikes by bank officers has raised two questions of wider significance: can managerial staff unionise, and can they participate in trade union actions?

In the strike called by All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC), the largest national federation of bank officers, a large number of officers of the executive cadres participated.

A few banks served warning notices to them, quoting a letter issued by the government 26 years ago. The letter said that executives of Scale IV and above are part of the top management, and them going on strike is prejudicial to the interests of the bank,