LEADERS of Nigeria
Labour Congress, NLC, its affiliate, National Union of Banks, Insurance and
Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, and other activists, yesterday, shut
down the operations of Diamond Bank
Plc’s Head Office, and two other key branches in Lagos, over alleged labour
infractions, including the sack of 200 union members and officials.
The Adeola Hopewell Head Office and two other branches
considered vital to the bank’s effective transactions were shut, preventing
customers and others from gaining access into the bank.
The aggrieved labour leaders and activists, displayed
several placards with inscriptions such as ‘Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity,
Diamond Bank has closed door against workers, do not keep silent,’ ‘core staff
or not we are all workers of Diamond Bank Plc,’ ‘Equals should be treated
equally,’ among others.
The picketing, according to leaders of NLC and NUBIFIE, was
prompted by the alleged refusal of the management of the bank to, among others,
reinstate the sacked workers, even when the National Industrial Court, NIC and
Ministry of Labour and Productivity, advised it to do so.
They were said to have arrived the bank’s head office few
minutes past 8a.m., barricaded it and ensured that its operations were
crippled.
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