Date:25/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/25/stories/2006012519080400.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Cooperative bank staff stage demonstration

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: Members of the Tamilnadu Cooperative Bank Employees Association staged a demonstration in front the Office of the Regional Joint Registrar of Cooperatives here on Tuesday.

The stir was in support of employees of urban cooperative banks who have been agitating for revision of their pay scale for the past five years.

According to association general secretary P. Balakrishnan, though 114 out of 125 urban banks were running on profit, the Government was not ready to revise their wages.

As a next course of action, the union decided to observe a one-day token strike in the first week of February, he said.