Caixabank offered to reduce the number of job cuts by more than 1,300 from its initial plan of nearly 8,300 layoffs as thousands of employees went on a one-day strike and staged protest rallies. It was the second such labour action in the banking sector in less than three weeks after a one-day strike by BBVA employees marked the first stoppage involving a bank at a national level in 30 years. Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), the largest trade union in the financial sector, demands that any cuts should be through voluntary redundancy while calling for greater financial compensation.
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