The influential National Union of Bank Employee (NUBE) today launched a protest against the country's second largest bank, Bumiputra-Commerce Bank (BCB), distributing pamphlets and balloons to the public at two busy shopping complexes in Kuala Lumpur.

Many union members were seen at the Suria KLCC and the Sogo complexes this afternoon in a public display of grievance against the bank. They gave away balloons with the words "BCB cheating workers" on them.

Among other things, the NUBE claimed that the bank was not conducting its outsourcing of duties according to labour law provisions and that a large number of clerical and non-clerical staff lost their jobs due to outsourcing of work.