Barclays staff tell shareholders: 'Protect our pensions'
31st July 2009
Workers from Barclays will be lobbying shareholders at their
meeting next Thursday as part of a dispute regarding their
pensions.
Date: Thursday, 6th August 2009
Time: 9.30am – 11.30am
Location: The Brewery, Chiswell Street,
London, EC1Y 4SD
The shareholder meeting has been called by Barclays to gain
agreement to sell the Barclays Global Investors (BGI) business to
BlackRock.
Unite members will be carrying placards stating: 'Hands off our
pensions' to highlight their anger at proposals by Barclays to
close its final salary pension scheme. Staff will be handing
shareholders a leaflet outlining their concerns.
Unite will be balloting its members within Barclays on whether
they would like to take industrial action to protect their pension
entitlement. In a consultative ballot last month, 92 per cent of
staff said they wanted to be balloted by Unite on industrial
action.
The strike action could take place across the bank during the
autumn. The industrial unrest would significantly impact the
operations of Barclays and the service it could provide for its
customers.
Unite represents over 25,000 members within Barclays. Unite
members work across all of Barclays operations including bank
branches, processing centres, call centres, computer centres,
Barclaycard centres, as well as on the offshore Islands and
Gibraltar.
ENDS
For more information contact: Saba Mozakka, Unite press office
on: 07768 693 953 or Ashraf Choudhury on: 07980 224 761.
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