Ethniki takes union to court - Financial Mirror

Ethniki takes union to court

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The National Bank of Greece in Cyprus has decided to take legal action against bank employees union ETYK over the two-week strike that has paralysed the bank. Ethniki Cyprus will sue ETYK as well as four employees from the bank’s IT Department who walked off the job.

The decision to take the matter to court came about after a vote carried out at the bank’s headquarters in Nicosia where 133 out of 153 workers voted in favour of legal action.
“We are extremely unhappy that despite constantly showing patience and leniency and despite the constructive proposals that have been sent to ETYK that would bring an immediate end to the strike action, they continue to show a total lack of goodwill for a solution to the problem that they themselves created in the first place,” the Bank said.
Both sides held separate meetings earlier in the week with representatives from the Labour Ministry in a bid to put an end to the strike and subsequent lock-out called by the bank over the employment of four employees from Greece, which the union claims is illegal.
Michalis Kokkinos, General Manager said that they had resorted to the courts because “the Labour Ministry is not the appropriate body to deal with such a matter, this is not an employment-related matte but a legal issue that has to be dealt with by the courts”.

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