SEIU Local 721

 

The Details

Tellers Make Change (Bank of America: Tellers Make Change)
11:30 speak with staff of the Bank (Tellers, Account Reps, Manager)
Noon – Leaflet Public outside

1.Speak to tellers, give website information and engage on issues for bank workers in these troubled times.
• Are they under more pressure due to the current environment? If so, what has changed? Are they being asked to encourage customers to sign up for unnecessary products?
• Have they heard about the pending layoffs? Have there been layoffs at that branch?
• Encourage them to check out website and tell their story as a bank worker.

2.Speak to “special account reps” (sometimes called “platform workers”)

Same conversation as with tellers.

3. Speak to Manager when you are asked to leave the premises about the same issues.

4. Leaflet customers outside the bank during lunch time rush
Time Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Host Memo Rivera
Location
Federal Way Branch (Federal Way, WA)
32011 Pacific Hwy S
Federal Way, WA 98003
Instructions for your Action
  • Download fliers:
  • Each person should go into the bank and ask the teller for them to "make change" - perhaps two 5's for a 10, two 10's for a 20, or whatever you desire.
  • After you receive your change, talk to the teller about how they feel that the CEO of Bank of America makes over 4000 times what the bank's average teller earns.
  • Explain how Bank of America is able to keep down its payroll costs at taxpayers' expense by providing its workers with low wages and inadequate health coverage.  Ask them about their own experiences.
  • End the action by leafleting outside the bank for 30 minutes or so with the full page leaflet attached. Bring a video camera or cell phone with you to film it outside (remember not to film footage inside the building, just the action outside of the building). If you have been asked to leave the property, go to the sidewalk or nearest public space.
  • Be polite, when asked to leave, you should leave.

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