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JB promotes labour leaders
to curtail TU activities
Staff Correspondent

The Janata Bank board of director has promoted 14 prominent leaders of the bank’s four trade unions to officer’s rank reportedly to curtail trade union activities, bank sources said.
They said the board of the country’s second largest state-owned bank last week approved the proposal for promotion of the union leaders.
But, ‘The trade union leaders are not interested in getting promotion as it would necessitate their transfer from the bank’s head office,’ said a senior official of the bank.
The board’s move is also going to negatively affect the organisational activities of the collective bargaining agencies, the official added.
Sources in the bank said the labour leaders had protested against the promotion to the managing director, SM Aminur Rahman. But Aminur said he had nothing to do about the matter, as it was decided by the board.
The sources also said the board meeting in question was held last week under police protection.
The four trade unions are Janata Bank Ganatantrik Karmachari Union, Jatiyatabadi Karmachari Union, Janata Bank Karmachari Association, and Janata Bank Sramik Union.
The promoted labour leaders include the pro-Awami League Janata Bank Ganatantrik Karmachari Union chairman Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, vice-chairman Ahmedullah Pakhi, general secretary Mohammad Sirajul lslam, vice-general secretary Monsur Mondal, organising secretary KM Khurshid Ali, and Enamul Haque Nilu.
The pro-BNP labour leaders who have been promoted are Jatiyatabadi Karmachari Union chairman Khan Azizul Rahman, vice-chairman Nasiruddin Ahmed, joint general secretary Sirajul Haq Khan, Sirajul
Islam Patowary, and Mujibul Rahman.
The rest of the employees are Janata Bank Karmachari Association chairman Samsul Huda Mamun and general secretary Abdul Mannan and Janata Bank Sramik Union chairman Shahadat Hossain and Madhusudan Mondal.