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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Monday, July 26, 2004. NUBIFIE to picket nine banks By Bimbo Kesington, Labour Reporter The National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE) has threatened to picket nine new generation banks that have refused to comply with the Abuja accord on unionisation. Prominent amongst the nine banks to be picketed are Universal Trust Bank (UTB), Metropolitan Bank, Chartered Bank, Gateway Bank and Citizens Bank. Others are, Kakawa Discount House, Gulf Bank, Stanbic Bank and City Bank. NUBIFIE General Secretary, Alhaji Mohammad Mamman, disclosed in an exclusive interview that the union was set to picket the banks after writing their management and waiting for them in vain to indicate their willingness to unionise their staff. “We have written to these new generation banks with reference to the Abuja accord, which they signed in March and promised to comply with the agreement to unionise their staff or face the risk of being picketed for anti Labour practises. Since they have shown lack of interest by not replying our letters, we have no choice but to picket them,” said Mamman. According to the scribe, out of a list of 53 new generation banks that were pinned down for picketing earlier in the year, 44 of them had complied with the Abuja accord and have all unionised their staff. “We have set up committees in 44 of the banks that were supposed to have been picketed in March to oversee elections for membership of the union. And so far we have not come in contact with any form of resistance.” Mamman further said the union had written to the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) to make known its intention to picket the banks. “We have drawn the attention of the CIBN and other stakeholders in the settlement in March that these banks have refused to comply with our demands and have negated the agreement we reached in Abuja. We are left with no option than to take the appropriate steps, which is to resume the picketing of the banks.” Mamman also said the issue of outsourcing staff and casualisation in the banking industry was being addressed. “We have reached agreements with the outsourcing companies to unionise their employees whether they are on contract or not,” he said.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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