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TUs highlight CB employees plight Several frontline trade unions have grouped together to highlight the case of the banking sector employees who have lost their jobs, prompting those employees to embark on an agitation campaign, by way of a satyagraha which is now over one and a half months old. The satyagraha staged by these employees attached to the Central Bank is nearly 50 days old, its organisers said, adding that it has come to a decisive stage where the struggle would continue unabated till victory is sighted. A petition in this connection has been sent to the President with copies to the Deputy Finance Minister, the Central Bank Governor, the Director General of the Presidential trade union unit and secretaries of five main political parties among others, for mediation. The petition states that the right to employment, is only second to the right to live. The petition also states that as a responsible TU federation the signatories are staging their own protest at the indifference shown by those in authority. MP K.D.Lalthantha of the Jathika TU centre is the first signatory while Rev. Muruththettuwe Ananda Thera is the second in a lengthy petition that has as many as 121 signatories, representing various unions.
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