NLC Urges Bank Workers To Down Tools

The Edo chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed workers of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc in the state not to report for duty   until the bank’s management recalls the sacked ones.

The NLC in its statement in Benin yesterday also directed all the branches of the bank to remain closed.

It pleaded with the customers to stay away, adding that the picketing would last till February. 18.

NLC regretted that at these difficult times, the bank reduced the salary of its workers, while at the same time increased the salary of the Group Managing Director (GMD) and other Executive Directors.

The union noted with dismay the stand of the bank’s GMD to “derecognise” the Association of Senior Staff of Banks and Financial Institutions Employees (ASBIFI).

The union described the action of the bank as modern day slavery and expressed its determination to resist it.