For the first time since 1990 Westpac and BNZ members held joint meetings to discuss their separate, respective, upcoming negotiations. The meetings showed that almost all the issues that members raised were shared by people across both banks. Prominent among these issues were concerns about understaffing, workload and unmanageable performance targets. Many meetings noted that significant change to these problems will require a real growth in union membership. In response Westpac and BNZ union councils have thrown a challenge out to all Finsec members to talk to all non-members on their site in the next month, and to make sure that every site has at least two delegates.

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