FSU-see
Finance Sector Union of Australia
Finance Sector Union of Australia 2005, The Finance Sector Workforce Report: 2005, FSU National Office, Melbourne.
Leon Carter, national secretary of the
Finance Sector Union, while decrying arbitrary rate hikes by banks, said, 'It seems that the days are gone when we knew precisely what an RBA interest rate hike of .25% would mean to our monthly mortgage payments.
(7) Additionally, some
finance sector union activists have become sufficiently disillusioned with mainstream unions that they created their own alternative, feminist union within the Service, Office, Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC), designed to meet the specific needs of women workers in the finance sector.
1 June 2010 - Australian lender Westpac Banking Corporation (ASX:WBC) said on Monday as cited by Reuters it has signed an accord with the
Finance Sector Union to add minimum 2% in 2010 and 4% in 2011 to the salaries of its 26,000 employees.
The newspaper also reported increases in membership for the 120,000-member Australian Services Union and the
Finance Sector Union.
The
Finance Sector Union says Australia's highly profitable banks have moved more than 4500 back-office jobs offshore during the past two years, and now wants government action to end the job losses, reports the Herald Sun.
Ed Sweeney, of the
finance sector union Unifi, said, 'Promoting itself as the best in the world, the UK finance sector must be acutely embarrassed that the gender pay gap is by far the widest in this sector than any other.'
Representatives of
finance sector union Amicus recently leafleted workers at the Teesdale site over rumours about the firm's future.
Peetz et al explore the roles of delegates in the
Finance Sector Union. Based on questionnaire surveys, they stress the key role of training and conclude that successful recruitment depends not just on developing the confidence to ask new employees to join but also on developing confidence and skills in undertaking a broad range of 'organising behaviours'.
The
Finance Sector Union (FSU) in Australia has said that banks' constant pursuit of profits is having a detrimental effect on staff.
Staff arriving at Churchill on Thornaby's Teesdale site were greeted by representatives of
finance sector union Amicus, one of them dressed as a 6ft bulldog.