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Meeting with bank employees to gain votes |
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2009-09-17 | 2.15 PM |
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Arrangement shave been made to organize a meeting at Temple Trees on the 19th between employees of state banks in the South and the President in order to receive their support at the forthcoming Southern Provincial Council election.
The letter sent to the bank employees inviting them to the meeting states the President plans to speak to them on developing the Southern Province and the financial crisis faced by the country.
General Secretary of the All Ceylon Bank Employees Union, Gamini Ratnasiri said they could not accept the invitation sent by the government after it had not provided any solution to the delay in granting salary |
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increments to state bank employees for the past nine months and the non payment of pensions to employees for the past 13 years.
Gamini said the politicians in the South were responsible for the development work in the area and the government was responsible for finding solutions to the economic crisis.
He further noted that the main of the government was to gain the support of the state bank employees for the Southern Provincial Council elections, as it was not up to the state bank employees to discuss the millions of rupees lost by the state banks due to Mihin and the hedging deal.
Gamini said a request has therefore been made from the President not to waste the time of state bank employees on futile discussions.
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