Combined, they could probably shed 10, 000, or more than a quarter, of their branch staff.
It has trimmed its retail-branch staff by one-fifth since 1992, and has replaced traditional branches with more efficient mini-branches in shopping malls.
Moreover, many of the middle managers and branch staff from the Hypo-Bank side feel like losers now that their old bosses have been ousted.
Speaking at Westminster, he said 14 Air Accident Investigation Branch staff had been deployed to Aberdeen to examine the cause of the crash, and would report as soon as possible.
In an e-mail the bank asks staff not to wear passes outside the Donegall Square East branch and advises staff that they may restrict access to the branch.
This policy applies to all Executive Branch officials and staff.
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In an exchange of letters, Mr Hester apologised for the incident but said that a large number of inquiries were dealt with instantly by branch and call centre staff.
Speaking at an investor conference Ryan McInerney, chief executive of consumer banking, said the company plans to add 100 branches a year, though staff per branch will fall by 20% by 2015 through "attrition".
He said anyone who was concerned could talk to staff in their branch.
The seven files, produced by the DI55 branch of the Defence Intelligence Staff, contain details of 1, 200 UFO sightings between November 1987 and April 1993.
Workers at all 21 delivery depots across Liverpool walked out, with CWU branch representative Mark Walsh saying staff felt they were being "being bullied into having their contract changed".
These customers often know the staff in their local branch by name, and will be none too pleased if Mr McColl sends them packing.
The Ulster Bank has issued security advice to staff working in a branch close to the trades union rally taking place in Belfast city centre.
The justice secretary said he had been forced to move his bank account after becoming chancellor in 1993 - after discovering journalists had been trying to bribe staff at his village branch for personal information.
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Staff at the Leamington Spa branch were already wearing Sports Direct branded shirts.
Lou Ralls, chairman of the Portsmouth branch of the Prison Officers Association, said staff were "buoyant" despite the closure.
Also, staff members at the county library branch on campus, where Quick worked part-time for about a year, "had fond things to say of him, " Levy said.
Unison branch secretary Chris Hanrahan, who represents civilian staff working at the force, said the union had been expecting further cuts and predicted civilian staff and police officer jobs could be lost on top of 100 staff already made redundant.
But Twitter will probably follow the example of other technology companies, basing its corporate headquarters in Dublin to take advantage of the tax rate (then hiring back-office staff) and setting up another branch in London where it can tap into a wider pool of folks who are highly skilled in software development.
George Barron, Unison branch secretary said it would leave many members of staff "massively out of pocket".
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said it was sending two staff to Kathmandu to assist local authorities.
Staff Sergeant Edgar D Bledsoe, of Olive Branch, Illinois, cradles a critically ill Vietnamese infant.
When she arrived at the branch in November 2012 and requested access to it, staff admitted they could not find the box or its contents.
"Royal Mail has concerns about the working conditions for our four members of staff working in the mail office at Sanquhar Post Office branch, " she said.
Ian Wheatcroft, branch manager at Ciceley Commercials, in Petersfield Road, said some staff at the firm used vans to make short journeys around the site to avoid being "dive-bombed" by the birds.
Setting up a branch is very costly with its IT, building, manager and senior staff.
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Unison's EEAS branch Secretary Gary Applin welcomed the increase in ambulances - which require two members of staff - but said he was not surprised to find not enough staff had come forward to cover shifts.
At all banks there is a struggle between head office, which wants to centralise processes, and local staff who are in thrall to the demands of local officials and industrialists and who disobey their branch managers on whom they depend for their promotions at their peril.
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