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REDUNDANCIES at Royal Bank of Scotland as a result of a plan to close 52 branches in Scotland will be greater than the number that bankers admitted to MPs yesterday, according to Unite.
RBS managing director for personal finance Jane Howard claimed that “the maximum number of compulsory redundancies will be 12.”
But Unite’s regional officer Lyn Turner, who attended the Commons meeting, told the Star that the number would be “over 200.”
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
Singer Nezza’s rendition of the US national anthem in Spanish has ignited important conversation around arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, writes LESLIE AMBRIZ