The Kutxabank unions call a strike this Friday due to the “limit situation” of the workforce
Along with the “lack of personnel”, the ELA, CCOO, Pixkanaka, ALE, LAB and Asprobank unions have also denounced “excessive pressure and suffocating hierarchical monitoring”.
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All the unions with representation in Kutxabank, ELA, CCOO, Pixkanaka, ALE, LAB and Asprobank, have called a strike this Friday, February 24thbefore the “limit situation” that the squad is going through for “the lack of personnel, the flight of talent and the excessive pressure and increase of objectives payroll taxes” despite the closure of offices.
In an appearance in Bilbao, union representatives have read a joint communiqué where they explain the reasons that have decided them to call this strike due to the “serious” situation that the workforce is going through.
After clarifying that there is no economic motivation behind this mobilization, they have explained that the objective of this strike is “reverse” the “serious” current situation derived, among other issues, from the “Closure of offices and increase in objectives that are imposed on the staff”.
Among other issues, unions have targeted the “increased trading pressure”which they have described as “excessive”, the flight of talent and the lack of personnel, among other problems, which have led the workers to “an extreme situation”.
ELA, CCOO, Pixkanaka, ALE, LAB and Asprobank have recalled that, according to their data, between 2014 and 2022, Kutxabank has closed 293 offices and has 1,448 fewer people in template. Currently, the workforce, they have added, is around 3,600 workers, of which around 300 are temporary.
In view of this situation derived from the closure of offices and the existence of less staff, the unions have denounced that, on the contrary, “the pressure for hiring” has increased, with an “exponential” growth of the objectives year after year and a “suffocating hierarchical monitoring”which has caused the staff “to be increasingly under pressure and discontent, which translates into anxiety problems and deterioration of physical and mental health“.
Source: Eitb
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