That is a poor position from which to tell branch workers to tighten their belts.
Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, has ordered 5,000 executive branch workers to take furloughs, too, a move estimated to save $4.5 million.
Ever since the extension of opening hours, branch workers told me, they had been more likely to have to deal with customers who were drunk or on drugs.
Limits were strictly enforced – thus the compulsion for employees to pad themselves with cash mid-shift and scurry to the nearest bank – though branch workers questioned at times just what these limits were in place to protect.
They voted to open lawmakers' market transactions to monthly online reporting; to disclose their personal home mortgage details; and to include thousands of ranking executive branch workers in this overdue transparency.
Branch workers around the country described to me a feeling during this period that they were being kept out on the shop floor as a hindrance, but no real impediment, to incident; on display like scarecrows, and about as formidable a deterrent.
Mr. Stumpf says he sees potential in encouraging the roughly 15,000 brokers in a greatly expanded wealth management unit to sell their clients checking accounts and mortgages, while urging its 30,000 branch workers to steer their customers to Wells brokers for investment advice.
Since the start of October, branch workers have been known as community bankers.
He got out from behind his desk to lead pep rallies for branch workers.
But the 3Cosas activists I have spoken to have pointed out how they were blocked by Unison's Senate House branch: outsourced workers' campaigns unsupported by branch leadership; their electoral bids for union committee positions thwarted when Unison declared the poll void.
