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Bank workers are going to pay now

  • 22-11-2010 10:02am
    #1
    galway2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭


    It looks like anybody working in an Irish bank will be worried about there job this morning.
    I think it is about time the banking sector got the chop
    Have any of them taken a pay cut?
    AIB was to let 2000 workers go. Did they?
    Has Anglo sacked any workers?
    What are all those workers still doing in banks???????
    Like the state has to borrow 50 to 80 billion for those banks and yes they have the same workforce


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  • #2
    purpur1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭purpur1


    galway2007 wrote: »
    It looks like anybody working in an Irish bank will be worried about there job this morning.
    I think it is about time the banking sector got the chop
    Have any of them taken a pay cut?
    AIB was to let 2000 workers go. Did they?
    Has Anglo sacked any workers?
    What are all those workers still doing in banks???????
    Like the state has to borrow 50 to 80 billion for those banks and yes they have the same workforce

    Yeah i agree the banking sector needs to be cleansed but chopping the day to day staff isn't right. It's the top dogs that fcuked everything up. The lower staff just carry out the orders and in fairness, i don't think they earn that much anyway. As far as im aware it's still busy in banking, they're still getting tons of mortgage/loan applications etc but approving very little, so the workload hasn't decreased by a whole lot. The higher paid staff should all be reviewed and chopped swiftly. I don't know of any bank thats let staff go actually, only the ones that were shutting up shop, Bank of Scotland/Halifax.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Didn't AIB give their employees a pay rise recently?


  • #4
    dan_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    I have to agree with purpur. Like the civil service, they need to go in at the top end first. I don't know whether banks are top heavy with staff, but I do know that we need to clear out their top management. They can't be trusted - particularly in light of the recent stories about them lying to NAMA aswell. I don't think it's fair to go cutting the counter staff and lower level workers.


  • #5
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    October 2009 so not realy recently

    The agreed raise was due to 2008 and management proposed not to pay it.
    Went to the Labour Relation Commission who deferred it for six months and so it was paid last October

    It was for about a third of the staff, not everyone.
    Lower level staff below manager level, I'm not sure if officer level is included


  • #6
    murphaph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,049 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    galway2007 wrote: »
    It looks like anybody working in an Irish bank will be worried about there job this morning.
    I think it is about time the banking sector got the chop
    Have any of them taken a pay cut?
    AIB was to let 2000 workers go. Did they?
    Has Anglo sacked any workers?
    What are all those workers still doing in banks???????
    Like the state has to borrow 50 to 80 billion for those banks and yes they have the same workforce
    I get the impression you expected a negative response to this thread but very few people in the REAL private sector work for banks (who have always seen themselves as special). I believe a hatchet should be taken to pay AT ALL LEVELS within the banks. If/when they are not totally reliant on the Irish (and British/German/Austrian...) taxpayer they can do what they like but they are effectively state employees now and should be in line for pay cuts commensurate with a failed state.

    I'm not happy or particulalry sad about it, just needs to happen.


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  • #7
    Slozer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 200 ✭✭Slozer


    I think bankers are doing an excellent job and should infact get more pay rises and bonuses. Considering that their ultimate goal is to **** up the global economy and have the working classes in debt for generations to come.


  • #8
    Fianna Downfall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Fianna Downfall


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Didn't AIB give their employees a pay rise recently?
    They paid some of them bonuses.


  • #9
    vonniec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭vonniec


    galway2007 wrote: »
    What are all those workers still doing in banks???????

    the normal bank clerks are trying to help people find ways to pay their bills. in between this, they're trying to figure out how to pay their own.
    it's not the normal workers that are to blame in this, it's the suits up at the very top thinking only about how they're going to finance their next holiday at the expense of the little people.
    the banks need to be restructured, not peeled back to a skeleton workforce that cannot deal with customers because the skeleton workforce left behind are the very selfish, greedy people that got us in this situation in the first place.


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