Coronavirus: Bank union calls for measures to protect employees
The union of bank employees, Etyk, on Tuesday called on lenders to launch procedures so that the beneficiaries of government assistance programmes to mitigate the...
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Bank workers union says cash should be ‘laundered’
Bank workers union Etyk has asked the central bank to shut branches for two days to give time for measures to be put in place...
Bank union lashes out at Sek for poaching members
Banking union Etyk complained on Monday that other trade unions were attempting to poach members from them. Etyk was responding to a decision last week...
EAC unions say not violating code by striking over pay dispute
Electricity company unions rejected suggestions their planned two-hour strike next Thursday over a pay dispute was in violation of the industrial relations code, a day...
Hellenic Bank urges union to enter negotiations as some employees strike
A 24-hour strike over a pay dispute was damaging for the staff itself, Hellenic Bank said on Friday, as their union expressed satisfaction over the...
Bank employees’ unions ‘sending clear message’ with strike action (Updated)
Bank employees’ union Etyk intends to send a clear message to the management of Hellenic Bank by staging a work stoppage on Friday, an announcement...
Union calls strike at Hellenic bank
Bank employees’ union Etyk has called a 24-hour strike at Hellenic Bank for next Friday, accusing the company of reneging on prior commitments made to...
Etyk cancels two-hour strike at Hellenic (updated)
Bank workers’ union Etyk cancelled a two-hour warning strike at Hellenic Bank on Thursday, which had been planned to protest against the management for supposedly...
SEK, PEO Pasydy accept Co-op scheme, slammed by Etyk
By Stelios Orphanides Three unions of the failed state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank agreed Thursday to accept the Co-op’s improved voluntary retirement scheme which bank workers’...
Union talks with Co-op fail to reach a deal
Unions representing workers at the Cyprus Cooperative Bank (CCB) on Thursday failed to reach agreement with the bank’s management over a proposed voluntary exit plan,...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Taken for a ride as banking loses human face
OUR SENSITIVE and caring politicians were inconsolable last week and unable to stem the flow of tears as the government pitilessly ended a century of...
Hellenic-Co-op deal will require another €1.5bn in government bonds – reports
By Stelios Orphanides Hellenic Bank will receive almost €1.5bn in government bonds as part of the agreement to acquire the Cyprus Cooperative Bank’s operations, Haravgi...
After public sector ‘pay gift’, bank workers want a slice
By Peter Michael Loizos Hadjicostis, the bank workers’ union Etyk’s honorary president, said on Saturday, banks should realise their issues will not be resolved by...
Etyk threatens with strike, says not informed over co-op sale
Bank workers union Etyk is once more threatening with strike action, this time over what it says was the co-operative bank’s failure to inform them...
How the bank workers clawed back their 2013 losses
By Stelios Orphanides The decision to bail in depositors at Bank of Cyprus and Cyprus Popular Bank, widely known as Laiki, wiped out €8bn in...
BoC workers authorise Etyk to strike over “unreasonable” demands
By Stelios Orphanides The members of Etyk working for Bank of Cyprus on Monday authorised the union to strike in a dispute over an alleged violation of...
Co-op suspends firing workers, gives deadline to restructure NPLs
By Stelios Orphanides The state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank has agreed to temporarily suspend its decision to fire 17 of its workers who failed to service...
Etyk angry over Co-op sacking workers with NPLs
Bank workers’ union Etyk said that it may resort to strike action to protest the dismissal of an unspecified number of Cyprus Cooperative Bank employees...
Etyk unhappy with Astrobank’s voluntary retirement scheme
Bank workers’ union Etyk, slammed Astrobank for unilaterally offering a voluntary retirement scheme to its employees described as less generous compared with those of other...
Etyk plan march to push their demands
Buoyed by politicians’ promises, bank workers union Etyk are planning a march for February 1 – between the first and second rounds of the election...