This Wednesday, Banco Provincia (Bapro) does not serve the public. The union of La Bancaria has ordered a 24-hour strike. Workers are demanding a change to the institution’s pension scheme.
They are asking for the repeal of law 15.008 which modified the pension scheme of the workers of this institution in 2017.
As reported by the bank, “Attention in branches will be affected due to union force measures”. From its social networks, the entity has detailed through which channels customers can continue to carry out their usual operations: Provincial Internet Banking, the BIP Móvil app, DNI account, Bancomat, Bancomat, the extra cash service and Complementary agencies.
The Bank claims the Buenos Aires Legislature and the opposition, the modification of the regulations of the Bapro workers’ pension schemesanctioned during the administration of former governor María Eugenia Vidal.
From La Bancaria have indicated through a press release that the new law “has caused the bank serious financial damagehas promoted thousands of precautionary measures, and continues to jeopardize the stability of the pension system itself in the face of the tangle of new processes that are emerging”.
“They have put us in the place we didn’t want: that of direct action measures, because dialogue and rational agreement are simply not on the opposition’s agenda,” the statement said.
Thursday 22 the bank will resume service. And, although the government of Buenos Aires has ordered four days of provincial holidays – 23, 24 and 31 December and 1 January -, the measure does not reach the banking institutions that carry out tasks in the province of Buenos Aires or financial institutions. In other words, there will be customer service in the banks on Friday 23 and 30 December.
The reform of the law sent by the Executive of Buenos Aires is due to the fact that in 2017 and during the mandate of María Eugenia Vidal, Cambiemos eliminated the mobility pension of Bapro workers. For this reason, from 2017 to date, almost 5,000 appeals for amparo have been filed with the judiciary. With current legislation, the amount of pensions was lower than it would have been if there had been no change.
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Source: Clarin
