The national secretariat of the Banking Association (AB), headed by Sergio Palazzo, announced this Tuesday a 24-hour strike during the month of February, without specifying the date, after meeting “in defense of wages” and in rejection of the “provocative position of the business chambers”, in the framework of the joint negotiation that they are carrying out.
“At the meeting of the National Secretariat of the Banking Association held on the day of the date and making use of the faculties granted by the Plenary of Secretary Generals, it was resolved to carry out a 24-hour national strike during the month of February“, reported the union entity through a statement.
Likewise, they expressed the need for “responses to all the proposals made during the three joint hearings that have been held up to now in the ambit of the Ministry of Labor of the Nation” and indicated “among them, our salary update, close the parity of 2022 and the one corresponding to this yearin addition to urgently solving the issue of income tax”.
“We hope that the business chambers will reconsider and bring this Thursday to the new hearing called by the Ministry, a proposal that contemplates and satisfies all the needs of the Bank workers,” the union’s statement completed.
In another statement released earlier, which bore the title “We want answers, we are fed up”the Banking Association had warned of the possibility of adopting “forceful measures in defense of wages and our rights.”
“Given the provocative position of the business chambers, which still do not understand the needs of bank workers, the Plenary of General Secretaries of the Banking Association, empowered the National Secretariat to take the necessary measures in defense of wages and benefits. legitimate rights that correspond to us”, they indicated in that text.
Within this framework, they announced the meeting called on the date “for the purpose of defining the scope and setting the date of the force measures that will inexorably take place, during the month of February.”
“We still do not have satisfactory responses from the business sector in the joint hearing held on the day of the date. The banking chambers continue without hearing the workers and workers, while time continues to pass and the purchasing power of our salary is affected day by day,” the AB reported.
The union that represents bank workers also referred to the Income Tax and reaffirmed that “for this union, salary is not profit.”
Regarding the income tax-they added- based on the premise that our Union has always upheld that salary is not profit, we need to begin to follow a path that allows, once and for all, achieve relief for those who pay this tribute”.
And they proposed that “since this is not resolved with a legislative reform in a timely manner, our claim is necessary and legitimate that, in this emergency, the banking entities take charge of compensation.”
