{"id":11349,"date":"2017-03-06T14:57:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2017-03-06T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:57:45","slug":"sacked-fidelity-bank-drivers-protest-over-unpaid-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/sacked-fidelity-bank-drivers-protest-over-unpaid-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked Fidelity Bank Drivers Protest Over Unpaid Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 50 drivers recently sacked by the Fidelity Bank Plc on Monday barricaded the bank\u2019s headquarters on Victoria Island, Lagos, to protest alleged non-payment of their severance packages.<\/p>\n

The workers, who carried placards and chanted solidarity songs, said that since the bank retrenched them a month ago, efforts to make it pay their entitlements failed.<\/p>\n

One of them, Mr Samuel Ayuwa, said that the management of the bank sacked all drivers and was not willing to pay severance packages.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cSince Fidelity bank does not want us again, we want the management to pay our benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us have worked for more than five years. It is our right to get our money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another driver, Mr Bayo Adewale, said that dialogue between the management and the sacked drivers broke down because the management was not ready to pay the entitlements.<\/p>\n

Some other drivers said that they were not afraid of leaving the bank that needed their benefits.<\/p>

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When contacted, the General Secretary of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution Employees, Mr Muhammed Sheikh, said that the protesters were not members of the union.<\/p>\n

According to Sheikh, efforts made by the organised labour to institute a workers\u2019 union in the bank were resisted by the management.<\/p>\n

He said that NUBIFIE would not be able to speak or negotiate on behalf of the workers since they were not members of the union.<\/p>\n

The President, Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, Mrs Oyinkan Olasoye, said that Fidelity bank workers were not members of the union.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Ejike Ndiulo, Head of Corporate Affairs of the bank, said that the management would soon resolve the conflict with the workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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