All Bectu articles – Page 24
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NewsBBC faces Christmas strikes
The National Union of Journalists is considering further strike action over Christmas and New Year’s Eve over the BBC’s pension reform proposals.
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NewsThompson urges staff to cross picket line
Mark Thompson has urged BBC staff not to “let down” licence fee payers by refusing to cross NUJ picket lines during the two day strike planned for Friday and Saturday
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NewsNUJ calls for BBC strikes support
The National Union of Journalists has called for support for its first strike over the BBC’s pension proposals, due to start this Friday.
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NewsBBC pensions: NUJ to strike, Bectu accepts proposals
BBC staff who are NUJ members will go on strike next month - but their counterparts at Bectu have accepted the corporation’s latest pension proposal.
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NewsBBC cuts send out shockwaves
The BBC funding cuts may have been greeted with sighs of relief from the upper echelons of the corporation, but outsiders have responded with anger and dismay
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NewsBectu steps in to help Lunn freelance clients
Bectu and accountancy firms are planning support groups for TV freelancers affected by the probe into media accountants Christopher Lunn & Company.
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NewsUnions to challenge BBC funding cuts
Unions have attacked as “appalling” news about funding cuts to the BBC, and vowed to challenge the decision.
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NewsKen Loach slams "grotesque" British TV
Filmmaker Ken Loach has launched a fierce attack on UK television industry, saying it has been reduced to “a grotesque reality game” - and has applauded recent top level cuts at the BBC.
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NewsUncertainty as BBC strike saga reaches conclusion
Unions are split over whether their members will accept the BBC’s eleventh-hour pension proposals as a final vote on industrial action kicks off.
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NewsBBC axing 22 drama jobs
The BBC is cutting 22 positions from the drama productions department, ahead of an anticipated reduction in its budget.
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NewsBBC staff will work-to-rule over pensions
Broadcasting unions are calling on their members to work-to-rule for 24 hours later this month as they await responses to the latest ballot over BBC pensions, which the NUJ predicts will result in strike action.
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NewsScott and O’Reilly back anti-ageism initiative
Selina Scott and former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly are among the women supporting a Working Party on Ageism which launches next week.
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NewsUnions delay action as BBC revises offer
The BBC could still be hit by strikes later this month, while unions have warned members to prepare for a long fight to see any further improvement in the BBC’s proposals for pension reform.
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NewsThompson: new pension proposal 'final position'
The latest proposal for pension reform put forward by the BBC is a “final position”, the director general Mark Thompson has told staff.
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NewsBBC pensions strike suspended
The unions have called off next week’s planned strike over BBC pensions, saying the corporation had made an improved offer.
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NewsBBC strike 'risks impartial appearance'
The BBC’s director general has warned staff they risk giving the “misleading impression” they are not impartial if they strike during the Conservative Party conference.
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NewsBectu hits out at BBC’s ‘worse’ pensions proposal
The BBC’s reworked proposal to overhaul its pension scheme is a worse option than its original suggestion for most Bectu members, the union’s leader has claimed.
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NewsWarsi calls for impartiality test to BBC strike
A Cabinet minister called for reassurances from the BBC today that planned strikes by staff would not breach impartiality rules by blacking out the Conservative Party conference.
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NewsUnions committed to BBC strike action
The three unions leading the charge against the BBC’s proposed pension reforms have said they are committed to plans for industrial action, despite the corporation’s concessionary third option.