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Indian ATMs emptied in two-day workers’ strike

January 11, 2019

A two-day nationwide general strike called by the Center of India Trade Unions has prevented cash deliveries to ATMs, interrupting the flow of currency to citizens across the nation.

According to a report by Times of India, the Bengal Provincial Bank Contract Employees Association, which took part in the strike, includes ATM security guards, CIT drivers, cash-loading staff and others who service the ATMs. 

Members of the BPBCEA either skipped work to participate in protests or showed up to work but refused to open the ATMs to cardholders. As a result, more than 85 percent of the 10,900 ATMs in Bengal remained closed during the strike, the report said

The CITU called this week’s strikes to protest the Modi government’s treatment of India workers, who accuse the government of “anti-labor, anti-people and anti-national policies.”

The strike was expected to continue through Friday.