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LTU Lobbies Labour Party Conference
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Date: 23rd Sep 2008
LTU today sent a team of Officials to lobby the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on the need for Lloyds TSB to abandon its 'Jobs To India' policy in order to protect jobs once it completes its takeover of HBOS.
The Union handed out over 2,300 leaflets to Ministers, MP's, Delegates and Journalists attending the Conference. This included handing a personal copy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling.
The focus of LTU's lobbying was to persuade the Government to apply political pressure upon Lloyds TSB's Board to abandon its strategy of offshoring jobs to India.
LTU argued that with tens of thousands of jobs likely to be lost once the takeover is complete - because of the removal of duplication and overlap - job losses could be mitigated if the Bank no longer carried out back office work from India.
Of course, the precedent for returning jobs from India was set when, last March, LTU succeeded in pressurising the Bank to close its Mumbai Call Centre, with work returning to UK-based staff
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