FNV plans four-hour strike at ABN AMRO’s Diemen office

FNV says a few hundred ABN AMRO employees will stop work for four hours on Thursday at the bank’s Diemen office, as a dispute over pay and office attendance moves into strike action. The union says it may escalate the campaign if the walkout does not produce the result it wants.

The stoppage is scheduled for 11am to 3pm, according to FNV. The union says the bank’s pay offer in collective bargaining is too low and opposes a proposed requirement for staff to work from the office an average of half the time.

The current collective agreement, which covers about 18,000 employees, expired on 30 June. FNV says further action could be longer and involve more offices, but has not yet set out what it would look like. ABN AMRO had been asked to comment, the report said.