Banking strike on Friday threatens to shut down ATMs and Internet banking

[3WA]

No, I disagree strongly with your strategy, the individual doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell. Its like a goose farting into a hurricane.Their best chance is with the power of collective bargaining.

Capital is organized. It probably owns most of the union bosses already. This is why its important to take charge and responsibility of your unions instead of allowing "career unionists" to run the show.

I'm not gonna watch a bunch of penguins spreading commie propaganda!!! (being sarcastic)

Short-term, yeah collective bargaining works from one salary increase negotiation to the next. Long term not so much. Unions won't be able to prevent banking apps replacing branches. If the big four stick with the old ways, new challengers such as TymeBank or its successors will replace them. Just like stable boys and horse sellers fell away when the motor car became prevalent.

If capital owns current union bosses, they will come to own future union bosses as well. That is why the individual must take responsibility for their own long-term prospects.

 

[Zukat]

Shut down internet banking? The most they can do is hire the crowd for R100 and a free tshirt, which will supports the digital migration.

 

[w1z4rd]

If capital owns current union bosses, they will come to own future union bosses as well. That is why the individual must take responsibility for their own long-term prospects.

They are individuals fighting titans, without their own they will be walked over.

 

[3WA]

They are individuals fighting titans, without their own they will be walked over.

Yeah, but what's the issue? I'm an individual and I know that on some fundamental level the captains of industry are oppressing me and laughing about it, but if I'm really honest with myself, I'm kinda happy with my lot in life. If my company gives me too hard a time, I look to move, and if I can't move, I try to upskill until I can. This is the same way I've thought since I was a teenager.

I can imagine there are going to be people at the strike on Friday - tellers and so on, who are frightened about the changes that are coming. But they've got time to put plans in place at the personal level to mitigate the effects on their lives. Whereas their union leaders are telling them to dig in and be obstinate and uncooperative.

 

[w1z4rd]

I guess if its just about you, then perhaps what you say has sense, but this appears to impact a lot of people at the same time.

I think the right to quit like you would and the right to fight for your job like these people are, should both be respected.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Front end stuff require secure interfaces and channels to effect back end transactions. Banks can't even produce simple innovative solutions without months of red tape...

You might be surprised at what banks are currently doing then...

 

[TheChamp]

Actually, the best way to remain poor is to unionise. If you are a hard worker you will soon be recognised by management as such and will get a better salary and faster promotion. However, if you are stupid enough to join a union, management will be forced to give you the same salary as the morons around you and will find it difficult to promote you.

Okay...

 

[Stonemason]

Okay...

You do realise that it is in a company's interest to keep good workers and that the way to keep such people is to pay them more?

Bad employees are a dime a dozen but good employees are sought after. That is why it can cost an employer as much as six month's salary to replace a good competent employee. Cheaper to keep them happy and entice them to stay.

 

[Utterly Confused]

Actually, the best way to remain poor is to unionise. If you are a hard worker you will soon be recognised by management as such and will get a better salary and faster promotion. However, if you are stupid enough to join a union, management will be forced to give you the same salary as the morons around you and will find it difficult to promote you.

So true.

 

[Medres]

Shouldn’t this be seen as an act of treason?

 

[lkswan747]

Kokela said the union will make sure that Internet banking is down....

Does he have access to DDOS services?
Perhaps he has a gripe against CISP too?

It appears as if he is hinting that the unions will resort to acts of sabotage and malicious damage to property in order to cripple ATM's and electronic banking! This is what unions do best.

 

[tRoN]

 

[TheChamp]

Shouldn’t this be seen as an act of treason?

In some dictatorship somewhere perhaps...

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Shut down internet banking? The most they can do is hire the crowd for R100 and a free tshirt, which will supports the digital migration.

Indeed, the "digitisation" they are protesting will be the exact thing that neutralizes this pathetic strike completely

if they want to demonstrate to their employers why digitisation is an excellent strategy, this strike is a brilliant plan!
if they aim to inconvenience the banks or customers for even a millisecond, they're about to get a proper reality check LOL!

 

[zippy]

Losers. Learn to bend over and take it in the rear like a real saffer

 

[pedruid]

Surely that won't be a protected action and the employee concerned will be fired?

Not only fired but prosecuted and jailed for industrial sabotage. But the the jails are already full.

 

[Willie Trombone]

You might be surprised at what banks are currently doing then...

I have a nephew working for one.

 

[uchoose]

A good excuse to fire workers saving the bank paying redundancy money.

 

[ForceFate]

Actually, the best way to remain poor is to unionise. If you are a hard worker you will soon be recognised by management as such and will get a better salary and faster promotion. However, if you are stupid enough to join a union, management will be forced to give you the same salary as the morons around you and will find it difficult to promote you.

Very often, people get salary increases when management get a whiff of an impending resignation. The rest of the time, they just pile work on their tables and play dead.

 

[Moto Guzzi]

Man this is good, me going to town on Friday.