AUPCTRE pickets Fidelity Bank operation nationwide over disregard to court order

THE Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE), said it has disrupted operations in Fidelity Bank branches across the country.

The labour union said it carried out the action against the bank over its refusal to pay the sum of N472 million to the union.

Comrade Benjamin Anthony, the President of AUPCTRE, who led members of the union to picket the bank in Abuja, explained that the union decided to embark on a one-day warning picketing against Fidelity Bank for flagrant disregard to court order

Anthony further said that members of the union in Anambra State Environmental Protection Agency (ANSEPA) won a case against the state government to pay off a 13-years backlog of salaries and allowances it owed its members.

He noted that a Garnishee Order was served on three other banks who were defaulters of the same issue but Fidelity Bank totally refused to comply with the order.

He also said that a 21 and seven days ultimatum was also served to the bank and elapsed without any response.

Comrade Anthony stated that two of the three banks have since complied with the order of the court to garnish the Anambra State government account except Fidelity Bank

The union threatened to mobilise AUPCTRE nationwide in collaboration with other sister unions to ensure a total shutdown of Fidelity Bank operation until it remit the N472 million to the union.