Strike at ING tomorrow and in April, trade union wants regulator AFM to intervene in conflict | Economy

In these troubled times for the banking sector, a collective labor agreement conflict is a bad thing, says FNV director Duygu Akçay. “Actually, we would like external supervisors, such as the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, to pronounce on the collective labor agreement conflict. It is important for everyone that a good solution is found quickly.” It is unclear whether bodies such as the AFM want to comment on a collective labor agreement conflict.

Employees at ING in the Northern Netherlands will in any case stop working on March 30, out of dissatisfaction with the lack of a new collective labor agreement. The three unions at ING (FNV Finance, De Unie and CNV Vakmensen) are calling on their members to come to an action meeting in Leeuwarden in the morning to register as a striker. It will be the first 24-hour strike ever at ING.

According to the unions, the ING top does not seem to realize what is going on among its own people. “The high workload, the lack of appreciation for the employees and the disproportionate focus of the ING top on the shareholders mean that labor relations have become completely disrupted.”

According to the trade union movement, the fact that customers are inconvenienced by the actions is ‘inevitable’. The strike at ING on Thursday will probably have no consequences for payments. ING is doing everything it can to ensure that important banking matters can continue as usual.

According to the trade union movement, the actions at ING will be continued after Thursday, with action journals and new action days, including on April 11 and April 24. On the latter date, the annual shareholders’ meeting of ING Group, the international parent group of ING, will take place in Amsterdam.

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