Caixa Geral de Depósitos to close 23 branches in Portugal, says union
The CGD Group Companies Workers Union (STEC) announced this Friday that the management of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) intends to “close 23 more branches in mainland Portugal” this month.
“STEC has learned that CGD’s management, after the recent announcement of the huge profit of 486 million [de euros]in the first half of 2022, it decided to cut costs even further and close 23 more branches, during the current month of August, with greater difficulty in the regions of Lisbon and Porto”, says the union in a statement sent this Friday to the newsrooms.
The union “plays the reasons” for this intention, and that” the will will reduce the costs of the “public” CGD capacity, which there is “aware of the others knows a congestion of the remaining branches of areas”.
Likewise, STEC points out that since 2012 there has already been a “decrease” in the 3,300 workers and the work of Caixa’s “more than 300 branches” in Portugal.
For the union, an overwhelming number ‘a number of profitable businesses and for the banks, deprived, with this, it represents profitable and private businesses, with many private clients’, that is, private customers, or businessmen and entrepreneurs .
Therefore, the TEC urges the Government not to “resign from its responsibility” in the certainty of the territory.
“In this abandonment of the GC of vast and vast areas, the Government can relieve of its responsibility with regard to the territory, but that after management, that population clear to its territorial definition then to free will in this case and regrettably are even public”, insists in the document.
“The defense of workers was not preserved as the Bank preserved its strategic plans as oriented towards the Public, the document is fundamental that the State must define”, he adds.
Contacted by Lusa, CGD has not yet responded to a request for comment on this situation.