Bank faces disruptive action

BANK of Scotland Ireland will today receive official notice of disruptive industrial action by 600 of its staff over the bank’s handling of its wind-down of its Irish operations.

While the union said it has yet to decide what form the action will take, other than that it will cause “significant disruption” to management, the bank says it has been told the workers will engage in a “day of inaction”.

Unite said its members in BOSI voted 94% in favour of action over “the failure of bank management to provide any clarity on the establishment of a separate company to handle the winding down of the bank’s operations in Ireland”.