BRITAIN’S biggest union today launched a national campaign to improve working conditions for banking staff.
Unite the Union is initially targeting the Lloyds Banking Group, but aims to widen the drive to other financial institutions.
The campaign is calling for an end to practices which it claims pressurise staff to meet unachievable sales targets linked to their salary packages.
And the union fears that financial products being pushed are being targeted at customers who can ill afford them.
Unite national officer Rob Macgregor said: “Unite has today launched a major campaign to end aggressive sales targets at Lloyds Banking Group.
“In this bank, which is part owned by the taxpayer, staff should be providing an excellent service to customers and being paid fairly for doing so.”
Earlier this week Lloyds announced 5,000 redundancies in its latest round of cutbacks.
However, the group confirmed that the shake-up will add 340 new jobs at its Chester-based administration operation.
