All Bectu articles – Page 37
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BBC News 24 to work to rule over cuts
Staff at BBC News 24 have announced a 'work to rule' in protest against job cuts that would mean the channel losing seven broadcast journalists. Union heads at the NUJ have warned the action could have a major effect on coverage of live events. The action is the unions' first ...
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Tired of being pushed around?
Exploitation of TV workers is grabbing media headlines as aggrieved freelances get more vocal. Employers, meanwhile...
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NewsITV offers£2.5m to halt pay strike
ITV has come up with a£2.5m offer in an effort to stop the strike action that has hit some of its biggest shows, including Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeawayand Coronation Street.
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NewsBBC News 24 staff 'work to rule'
Staff at BBC News 24 have announced a 'work to rule' protest against job cuts in the department which could affect the channel's election coverage and next month's FA Cup final.
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Strike threat to BBC election coverage
The BBC's general election coverage could be hit by strikes. Thousands of BBC workers are to be balloted on strike action after last-ditch talks between union negotiators and director general Mark Thompson failed. Bectu, the NUJ and Amicus are threatening a 24-hour walk out, with one union official warning coverage ...
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NewsBBC strike threat could hit election coverage
The BBC's general election coverage could be hit by strikes being threatened by unions.
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NewsThompson meets with unions
BBC director general Mark Thompson will face union negotiators today in a bid to avert threatened strike action.
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Thompson agrees to meet unions
Union negotiators have been granted their first formal meeting with BBC director general Mark Thompson over his plans to axe 3,780 jobs.
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ITV staff strike over pay
ITV workers are to go on strike for four days over a pay dispute, in a move that the unions claim could hit key shows such as Coronation Streetand Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.
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Unions warn of strike action over BBC cuts
Unions have warned the BBC that it could face strikes within weeks if it does not meet their demands on proposed job cuts.
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Unions fight back against BBC cuts.
The BBC faces a showdown with angry unions over its latest round of job cuts, which
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NewsITV unions vote for strike action
ITV workers have voted to strike after Easter, threatening production of key shows such as Coronation Street, after management refused to cede to their pay demands.
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NewsUnions issue BBC strike ultimatum
Unions have given the BBC 90 days to avert a strike ballot, in the wake of Monday's massive job cuts announcement.
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NewsUnions fight back against BBC cuts
The BBC faces a showdown with angry unions over its latest round of job cuts, which will mean a fifth of the workforce being axed.
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Backroom staff first to go in cull
Last week's announcement of 1,730 job cuts was the biggest single round of redundancies in BBC history.
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NewsBBC braced for more job cuts
BBC staff are bracing themselves for the second swathe of major job cuts, with director general Mark Thompson expected to announce on Monday that at least another 1,200 jobs will go over the next three years.
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ITV sheds 95 staff across regions
Nearly 100 jobs have been cut by ITV following Ofcom's decision to allow the broadcaster to halve its non-news regional output.
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NewsUnions ballot in ITV pay dispute
ITV employees are being balloted for industrial action after broadcast union Bectu rejected a 3.3% increase pay offer from the company.
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NewsBBC axes 1,730 staff
BBC director general Mark Thompson has taken the axe to 1,730 backroom staff - the biggest single round of redundancies in BBC history.
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BBC staff hit out
The BBC board of governors may have learned their fate on Wednesday, but scores of other BBC employees took to the streets to complain that they were still very much in the dark about their futures at the corporation.