Bank counsel refutes press statement of striking union
The management of the City Savings Bank, through its legal counsel, vehemently denied a press release made by the CSB union published as a paid advertisement in The FREEMAN the other day.
This after the union staged a picket recently over the alleged “intransigence of the CSB management in hearing their call for wage adjustment and grant of other benefits.” The union then published a statement against the system of the bank days after.
Dante Ramos, legal counsel of the CSB management, sent a letter to The FREEMAN requesting the publication to present their side of the story that contradicts the claim of the National Union of Bank Employees-CSB Employees Chapter in the published statement.
Ramos said the clarification is on behalf of the 92 out of 152 members of the NUBE-CSBEC who filed a petition before the office of the Department of Labor and Employment-7 to call for a general assembly and referenda to decide whether the bank’s financial package was acceptable to the majority.
The NUBE-CSBEC stated in their paid advertisement that, “the management has also been orchestrating a letter-barrage to the Secretary of Labor and Employment to make it appear that employees want the
The bank, through Ramos, refuted the statement, saying that petitioners and other union members constituting an overwhelming majority of the bargaining unit had previously informed the union leadership, through a letter signed by all of them, expressing their collective acceptance of the bank management’s economic offer.
He said petitioners arrived at such collective decision on their own choice and without the influence of the management, which decision was however rejected by the union leaders.
The majority of the members thus requested for the intervention of the Labor department to end the bargaining deadlock between the union and the management, Ramos added. — Jessica Ann Pareja/MEEV
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