An interesting development!
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Fabulous! Iâm a huge fan of a union. Having someone to advocate for you when you canât is the best.
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Amazing, fully suppport and I hope the exec team support this move too
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Absolutely! UCU were great when my employer was being a bit difficult about absences due to an underlying health condition.
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That is good news. I hope nothing has happened to terms to trigger it.
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They really need one there. The internal council do some good things, but Iâm just glad thereâs a bigger push for a recognised one now.
A lot needs to change I feel.
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What sort of thing?
It wouldnât be fair of me to go into detail of everything I felt needed changing or improving for a colleague point of view, including pay and hours.
Going from Britainâs biggest bank to monzo, I probably had it really good, and the two unions at Lloyds, on paper, did a lot of good things for us, especially through the pandemic.
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Can any current Monzo employees let us know how we, as customers, can best support their unionisation efforts?
I hope management understand how much goodwill they will demolish if they refuse voluntary recognition.
Solidarity!
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Iâd be very surprised if the management team refused. I guess weâll see; but Iâd expect a statement saying they welcome the move.
They (management) always said youâre free to join a Union, but my sense was they couldnât be arsed with the effort behind it all, and just didnât want the agro or to have to put money into it.
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Well that is sort of fair, itâs for the employees not the employer to organise and put to the employer really. Itâs the employees voice after all.
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Probably a good move. Iâd imagine Monzo is pushing through âfive year startup painsâ (no knowledge this is the case but itâs typically around this point in a startup) and this will help guide them iâd imagine in what could, or should, happen next in terms of employee structure and support.
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Thatâs excellent news, well done to the employees and hopefully Monzo management will not cause any issues.
Itâs a fundamental right to be able to unionize and collectively solve problems and I am really happy to see more people at non traditional industries going that way.
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Thatâs great news! Iâd be surprised if management team refused although itâs been a day since the announcement and so far Monzo seems to be on a media blackout which is odd given how much they tend to post on social media and for some reason they donât seem to be engaging with this? I wonder how they will try to spin this around. I hope this is positive for the people working there and that management gets behind it, the longer Monzo waits to reply publicly the bigger the risk of customers turning awayâŚ
Customers arenât going to turn away because Monzo didnât publicly comment on a Tweet from an account with under 3000 followers about an issue which is of little relevance to customers.
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Indeed. If even potential anti-union sentiment were a customer turn off, Starbucks and Amazon would be out of business by now. And yet, doesnât seem to have done them much harm.
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Disagree with you, lots of people have sought alternatives to the services described, even if itâs a small amount of customers, itâs probably the type of customer who does manage their money in Monzo due to their ethos credentials rather than the type of customer who just uses Monzo while they go abroad.
Disagreeing with lots of âifâ and âprobablyâ with nothing to back it up even though you say people HAVE sought alternatives. Question - do you honestly believe people have switched bank because Monzo didnât publicly comment on a tweet? Come on now!
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