Unite Reaction to Turner Report on Reform of FSA

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, said: "This agreement is a smoke screen designed to deflect criticism away from those who brought our banking system to its knees. The industry remains over populated with the greedy, arrogant and corrupt.

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, the UK's largest trade union, has today (Thursday) welcomed the findings of an independent report, produced by the Royal Automobile Club Foundation (RAC) which states that Mayor Boris Johnson is "pre-occupied with minority-focused transport schemes and high-cost initiatives". Unite regional industrial organiser, Peter Kavanagh, said: "Unite warned the Mayor that the withdrawal of the bendy bus would mean more buses, more operating costs and more congestion on the already congested roads of London.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, the UK's largest union, today (Tuesday) welcomes the BERR Select Committee report entitled 'Post offices- securing their future', but expresses disappointment that the committee has not been bold enough in recognising that a bank based at the Post Office would only deliver a number of the points that the committee acknowledges in its report. Paul Reuter, Unite National Officer responsible for the Post Office, said: "This is a good report which acknowledges that there should be no more branch closures.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - In a positive and significant effort to combat the serious impact of the deteriorating global economy on British Airways, Unite, the UK's leading union, yesterday (Thursday) proposed to the airline a major package of negotiated efficiencies, temporary cost savings and deferred payments worth millions over the next two years. The union is clear, however, that this 'interest free' investment by BA's workforce now must be repaid as the company returns to operating profitability in the near future.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, said: "The news that 4,500 RBS staff in the UK are to lose their jobs is truly devastating. Unite is appalled that thousands of people, who form the backbone of the RBS operations, are to be made redundant.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Derek Simpson, Unite joint general secretary, said: "The announcement by Aviva to cut 1,100 staff will cause alarm across the insurance industry. Today we see a scenario where a company that is continuing to deliver positive results is slashing the staff that have enabled them to weather the current financial storm.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - New research will be launched in the House of Commons on Tuesday 31st March which sets out the necessity for radical reform for the financial services industry. The report by the Financial Exclusion Centre has been commissioned by Unite the union.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Derek Simpson, Unite Joint General Secretary, said: "To slash 2,900 jobs demonstrates the insincerity of the claim by HSBC to be 'the world's local bank'. This decision will ravage a number of local communities as sites are closed and other work is sent abroad.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - Unite the union today (Thursday) rejected the demand from the Competition Commission that BAA has to sell Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airports, in addition to the already agreed sale of Gatwick airport. According to Unite national secretary for aviation, Steve Turner: "The Commission has applied a narrow competition at all costs criterion to the complex operation of our airport operations which will not deliver and does not serve either the national transport infrastructure, the travelling public nor the thousands of airport workers across the country.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, the UK's biggest civil air transport union, welcomes the announcement today (Friday) from the High Court that the challenge to the expansion of Stansted airport has been suspended. Steve Turner, Unite National Officer, said: "We are delighted at this decision today and hope we can now move on and develop an expansion programme at Stansted airport.

March 4th, 2009 LONDON - Legendary singer Tina Turner is soon turning 71 but still gave a spectacular performance in London recently. She was as energetic as she was at the peak of her career in the 1980s.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US-based production major Turner International's recently announced entertainment TV channel REAL is set to go on air March 2. 'REAL will start with daily three hours of original programming with a dynamic blend of fiction and reality shows.

March 15th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Glenn Turner, the New Zealand Cricket's chief selector, has turnedthe heat on the players, asking them to perform, or they will be shown the door. The revolving door is spinning fast enough to generate a hurricane, but national selection panel spokesman Glenn Turner defends the bowling rotation saying it's a matter of picking players when they are in form and ditching them when they waver.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reality shows, dramas and much more - US-based production major Turner International promises to entertain Indian viewers with the launch of their Hindi general entertainment channel REAL. The channel - REAL - will go on air in March 2009 with four varied shows.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A 20-year-old Brisbane student will visit as many countries as she can in next twelve days, in a stunt she hopes will win her the best job in the world. Hailey Turner, the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) business student, made a short-list of 50 people out of 34,684 applications worldwide for the dream job.

December 31st, 2008 SYDNEY - Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) curator Tom Parker expects the spinner friendly track to come good for the third Test between Australia and South Africa from Saturday, but said it is unlikely to be a raging turner. The SCG has traditionally offered good assistance for the spinners, and Parker expected the slow bowlers would gain some turn as the game progressed.

May 9th, 2009 PANAMA CITY - Panama has reported its fist case of swine flu with detecting the deadly A/H1N1 virus in a young man who had recently returned from the US. The patient is out of danger and has been sent home, Panama's Health Minister Rosario Turner said Friday, adding that both the infected man and his family have been given anti-virus treatments.

August 18th, 2009 Attorney says blogger incited others to help FBIHARTFORD, Conn. — An attorney for a New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges says he worked with the FBI to deliberately make provocative statements.

June 11th, 2009 Blogger surrenders on Conn. lawmaker threat chargeHARTFORD, Conn.

June 25th, 2009 NJ blogger accused of threatening Chicago judgesNEWARK, N.J. — A white supremacist blogger is due in a New Jersey court on charges he threatened to assault or murder three Chicago-based federal judges.