BoI staff to vote on industrial action

THE largest trade union at the Bank of Ireland is to ballot 7,000 staff for industrial action.

The Irish Bank Officials Association (IBOA) will ask staff in the bank’s offices in the Republic and Britain to engage in what it described as “limited industrial action” in protest at the bank’s plans to withhold €24 million in staff share bonuses.

This action may include overtime bans or short work stoppages up to but not including strike action.