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Burning the midnight oil in protest!

Dinesh Narayanan

MUMBAI, Sept. 6

THE employees of Central Bank of India are planning a novel protest. But for that, the management has to agree!!

The employees want to stay back one night to ``work throughout and clear the backlog of work'', according to Mr. Subhash Sawant, General Secretary of the All-India Central Bank Employees' Congress.

The planned action, part of an on-going agitation that started on May 29 with a maun vrath (silent protest), is against the revised promotion policy of the bank, Mr. Sawant, who is also the convenor of the joint forum of Central Bank employees' bodies, s aid.

``We have a working committee meeting in Patna on September 18 where we will discuss the matter, and then seek the management's permission to work at night as a protest,'' he said.

The joint forum comprises the Indian National Bank Employees' Federation (INBEF), the Bank Employees' Federation of India (BEFI), the National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW), the National Congress of Bank Employees (NCBE), and the Bank Karmachari Se na Mahasangh (BKMS).

Mr. Sawant said the joint forum was also organising demonstrations before zonal offices on September 21.