Prospect National Secretary Mike Graham said they would press the company for discussions about potential redeployment.
"Unite will oppose compulsory redundancies and we expect the company to do everything possible to make redeployment an option and allow workers to move to neighbouring branches wherever possible".
Barratt said today that redundancies will be kept to a minimum through natural staff turnover and redeployment where possible.
"Any proposals made will only be implemented after due consultation with staff and, as before, we will seek to mitigate the impact of changes through consideration of voluntary redundancy and redeployment wherever possible".
"We are committed to working through these changes with our colleagues carefully and sensitively and will seek to use natural turnover and redeployment wherever possible," said David Oldfield, managing director for asset finance.
We will do all we can to support our staff, offer redeployment opportunities wherever possible and keep compulsory redundancies to an absolute minimum".
We will do all we can to support our staff, offer redeployment opportunities where possible and keep compulsory redundancies to an absolute minimum".
We are doing everything we can to support them, including seeking redeployment opportunities wherever possible and ensuring that compulsory redundancies are kept to a minimum.
"We will do all we can to support our employees, offer redeployment opportunities wherever possible and to keep compulsory redundancies to an absolute minimum.
"This is clearly difficult news for our staff and we will do everything we can to support them, including seeking redeployment opportunities wherever possible to ensure compulsory redundancies are a last resort".
