Trade Union (IBOA) ignoring my correspondence.
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Freudian?
Its sounds like you have been treated very badly, I deal with SIPTU as a company rep., and have to say most of them need a good shake.
All I can say is ring Brodericks secetary, and arrange a time for a phonecall / meeting, get back with results
I was an IBOA member for all my working life , if ever there was a problem all I ever had to do was contact my branch rep or failing that my district secretary ( all numbers were given in the annual IBOA diary , equally the numbers were carried on the IBOA website [broken link removed] ).
You will never be ignored if you have a valid complaint .
You will never be ignored if you have a valid complaint .
When you consider the amount of dues that the IBOA collects from it's members on a monthly/annual basis, it must be huge. From memory the IBOA never paid "strike money" back in the 1970 and 1976 bank strikes. What do they really do for their subscriptions? Is it just jobs for the boys?
Certainly the OP seems to have been badly treated by this organisation especially when they offer an individual service to their members. I would have thought that answering a letter would be the least that they could do for a member and perhaps a "follow up".
I dont think this or any other trade union offers "an individual service to their members". No more than a GAA club or Tennis Club offers individual service to their members.
Never had a problem with the IBOA , in actual fact given the ways the Banks operated during the Celtic Tiger period with an undue emphasis on selling products to customers whether they needed them or not and then rewarding staff with result based bonuses and pay for performance contracts those of us who insisted on remaining on IBOA negotiated contracts would have been walked on if not for IBOA support.
This is from their own website.
The Union pursues this wide agenda through collective engagement with employers on behalf of large numbers of staff. IBOA also pursues this agenda on an individual basis – where a member feels that they have been unfairly treated in a particular situation – by taking personal cases with due respect to confidentiality.
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Do you think that the majority of members who pay their subs from every paycheque are too dumb to have noticed this?
Are you insinuating that the poster is lying?
Just because their post may offend your socialist dogma it is no reason to question their integrity.
My own personal experience with the IBOA is that they have always been helpful if member's have valid compaints.
I would certainly not question the poster's integrity but I would suggest that they pursue the matter firstly through the correct channels , firstly through their office rep and then if required through their district secretary whose details are on [broken link removed] .
I feel that most members are more than happy to pay their dues particularly since the IBOA ensured that the Bank of Ireland paid the recent 3.5% increase due under the National Wage Agreement.
The OP is still entitled to a response from the IBOA, whether it be "Yea or Nay". My understanding is that the OP wasn't even given the courtesy of an acknowledgement of correspondence.
I am not sure if anyone in the IBOA is interested in the small things, only the headline grabbing things.
For example. If you are a member in Ireland your monthly dues are €25.16 but if you are in the U.K. your monthly dues are £18.45. Their website says that the Euro/Sterling rates are calculated using the rate .73335
When was the last time the Sterling/Euro rate was at .73335?
Maybe someone should get on to their UNION to complain about preferential treatment being given to U.K. members.
If the IBOA cannot deal with this on their own website what chance did the OP have in having a letter answered or a phone call returned!
Actually they are trade unionists whose wages are paid by the members who represent the majority of Bank Officials , the membership fees are based on what's paid by Irish Members so it appears that the IBOA are being very good to UK members but then that's typical of them !
It's extremely heartening to see the huge increase in membership but I suppose that's always the way - when trouble is in the offing membership always increases !
That is not correct. If you calculate £18.45 @ .73335 you get €25.15. They are not offering their U.K. members a preferential rate of membership dues rather they are using an incorrect rate of exchange to calculate membership fees.
This is what the subscriptions page on their website says.
The euro figure is derived from the original rate with the appropriate CPI increase of 4.9% applied. The sterling rate is derived from applying the appropriate rate of exchange (€-£) of 0.73335 as listed on xe.com.
The IBOA trade union seems to be well suited to the banking world,very quick to contact people when they want money but constantly out of the office when you have a genuine problem.The only thing to do is change Union and they might give you new customer preferential treatment and do something.
And of course the great benefit that they successfully negotiated the 3.5% increase for all Bank of Ireland staff on Union negotiated contracts payable under the National Wage Agreement towards 2016 and also wage increases for Ulster Bank staff and are currently in negotiations with AIB , they have also concluded an agreement that there will be no further job losses in Ulster Bank after the matter of the 750 voluntary redundancies vis-a-vis the First Active rationalisations are concluded
If members have problems the usual course of action is to raise the matter with their local rep who will then raise the matter with either the district secretary or directly with the area IBOA employee.
Quite honestly given the rapacious greed practiced by Irish Banks in recent years we are blessed to have a strong union.
Let's not get carried away with the power of the IBOA here, they didn't negotiate anything with Ulster Bank on further job losses, RBS announced they were laying off 9000 people globally and 50% of those would be outside the UK, all the IBOA got was a confirmation that it would not apply in Ireland and that is because UB had already taken action around headcount reductions
Having said that, and speaking as someone who has sat opposite IBOA union reps on many occassions, I have always found them sensible and understanding that managers have businesses to run. If a members request/issue is unrealistic/over the top, they will often quite quickly tell the member that that is the case.
I'd be curious as to what the OP's issue is and whether or not the issue was, in the unions view, fair and reasonable?
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