Banks closed today to strike: doors closed and parades – Il Sole 24 Ore

Banks closed today to strike: doors closed and parades – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 30 January 2015 to 06:39 hours.
The last modified on 30 January 2015 to 13:53 hours.

The strike of the bank today will force banks to counter closing. Certainly not all of them but, given the premises come from workers’ assemblies attended by more than 100 thousand workers, it is likely that the majority of the branches will be closed. At the time home banking rampant the hardships that will accrue to the customers and for the organizations, however, will not be those of a few years ago, when technology had not gained the upper hand on the habits of customers.

As they say the data Abi at the counter there was a real collapse of customers, thanks to the home banking with which you can now do most ordinary transactions. Excluding those, especially for age reasons, still go to the bank to pay the bills, or those who just now would have to do important tasks, such as the loan for the purchase of the house, all the others they will realize dell ‘ more agitation for events that will cross four major cities, Milan, Rome, Palermo and Ravenna and the closing of the doors.

Given the premises arrive by the assemblies of workers who took part in 100 thousand, many branches, perhaps most, may remain closed. How to explain a few large groups, however, all online services are regularly secured, the ATM, the ATM, will be fully operational and, depending on the type, can be used for deposits, with drawals and payment of bills. And to stay on the news, since we are at the end of the month even for tasks such as accreditation of salaries, banks ensure that there will be no problem: today’s technology excludes the manual human, everything is electronic and automated so unless that there are no acts of sabotage, for salaries, which are typically credited a few days before the 30th, there will be problems.

“We demand to ABA, companies, banking groups, transparency in terms of remuneration of the vertices, and to make public the answers that the ECB currently required with respect to parameters that define the salaries of bankers and senior management, “says Maria Lando Sileoni, secretary general of Fabi who will be in the square in Milan the general secretary of the CGIL, Susanna Camusso. After the strike, “we expect at most within two weeks of a radical change in attitude and policy implemented to date by Abi – continues Sileoni -. Otherwise, it will be decided jointly further actions to fight. ” Along the same lines the general secretary of the CGIL Fisac, Agostino Megale, which threatens the continuation of the mobilization but will become “even more dense and harder than what has been done, with further strikes and initiatives.”

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