Angry customers spit at TSB bank workers

BANK workers who claim they were spat at by customers when news broke of a rise in interest rates by Permanent TSB have appealed to mortgage holders not to take their blame out on them.

Up to 50,000 homeowners will be affected by the decision to standard variable rates by 0.5% from Monday, and many expressed their anger on radio programmes and in bank branches yesterday.

The Unite trade union, which represents 1,000 workers at the bank, said its members were “bearing the brunt” of the public anger and were being physically attacked and spat on across the counter.