All Bectu articles – Page 47

  • News

    Granada staff express anger at pay freeze

    2001-10-18T08:43:00Z

    Unions demand a 'fairer' system and say executives should give up share options no longer available to regular staff

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    ITV Unions to oppose budget and jobs cuts

    2001-09-21T12:06:00Z

    Newly established pan-union body says further ITV cuts will 'seriously weaken' broadcaster

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    ITV Unions takes anti-cuts stance

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Newly established pan-union body ITV Unions has agreed to oppose cuts in programme budgets and any future compulsory redundancies from ITV companies, writes Simon Ellery.At its first meeting this week, the

  • News

    Broadcasters need to open training

    2001-09-07T15:37:00Z

    Skillset/DCMS report calls on Ofcom to monitor amount broadcasters spend on training

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    Report calls for IT skills training

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters need to open up their teaching facilities to third parties to prepare workers for the changing demands of the information age, according to the industry's leading training body, writes Katy Elliott.

  • News

    BBC Radio acts to prevent ideas theft

    2001-08-24T08:11:00Z

    Corporation's radio arm signs code of practice designed to prevent the theft of ideas proposed by freelancers and independents

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    BBC signs ideas code

    2001-08-24T00:00:00Z

    BBC Radio has signed up to a code of practice designed to prevent the theft of ideas proposed by freelancers and independents, writes Georgina Lipscomb.The Code of Practice for the Submission

  • News

    Standards body to be created

    2001-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters and unions are to form an unprecedented joint company to oversee standards and grading in safety critical employment areas such as special effects, rigging and stunts, writes Barbara Marshall.

  • News

    BBC staff urged to shun review

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Union of Journalists and Bectu have called on BBC staff to boycott their annual appraisal interviews as part of the continuing dispute over the corporation's pay and reward structure, writes Leigh Holmwood.

  • News

    BECTU and NUJ tells BBC staff to boycott appraisals

    2001-08-09T10:41:00Z

    Unions advise engineers and journalists at not to turn up for annual meetings with managers in protest at pay structure

  • News

    UNIONS UNITE IN ITV

    2001-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A new pan-union body has been created to fight for the interests of members of the three main TV unions within ITV. Called ITV Unions, the organisation brings together the National

  • News

    News Analysis - Hobson's choice

    2001-07-20T00:00:00Z

    What future can there be for producer choice, after BBC director general Greg Dyke blocked a£1m outside broadcast contract with an independent facilities company last week in order to give it to Resources?

  • News

    Bectu wins fight over holiday pay

    2001-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Rules Barring broadcast staff on short-term contracts from paid holiday are to be scrapped following a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling, write Simon Ellery and Leigh Holmwood.

  • News

    NUJ and Bectu call lobby for Sky employees

    2001-06-08T09:28:00Z

    Unions call for better terms for 36 Sky News employees facing redundancy after radical restructure

  • News

    Unions seek deal at Sky

    2001-06-08T00:00:00Z

    THE NUJ and Bectu are lobbying BSkyB to try to improve redundancy terms for 36 Sky News employees, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Communicopia to face sacked staff's union

    2001-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Scores of sacked journalists from The Money Channel's contracted production outfit Communicopia are gearing up for a union-backed battle over unpaid wages and compensation, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Dispute at Carlton averted

    2001-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Carlton has averted industrial disputes at its Central and HTV regions that threatened to disrupt key ITV programmes, writes Steve Aston.

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    Dyke caves in to Resources staff demands

    2001-04-20T13:26:00Z

    Bectu members halt work-to-rule action after Dyke agrees to introduce less stringent expenses regulations

  • News

    Mackey picked for key Resources role

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC Resources has created a new head of business development role but continues to face industrial action following the restructure first announced last July, in which more than 200 jobs and

  • News

    Dyke relaxes expenses rules

    2001-04-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC BECTU members last week halted their work-to-rule action after BBC director general Greg Dyke announced a partial U-turn over his expenses policy, writes Georgina Lipscomb.