FSU steps up campaign against outsourcing

The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has placed advertisements in newspapers around Australia to highlight its concern over banking jobs being sent overseas.

The union says it is also worried personal information about Australian customers is being sent overseas.

The union's Paul Schroder says it wants shareholders to pressure the banks to reconsider the need to send jobs and information overseas.

"We're concerned that the general public doesn't know how bad this outsourcing trend is or how much worse it could become," he said.

"So we've put a message out to shareholders saying that they need to send a clear message to their banks to say that nobody likes jobs going offshore, nobody likes personal data going offshore and that the banks need to change their minds."