BBC unions are to ballot for
strike action unless the corporation halts plans
for devastating job losses.
Union reps from the NUJ, BECTU and AMICUS will
deliver an ultimatum to BBC managers tomorrow to
call a halt to job losses, guarantee no compulsory
redundancies and protect the working conditions
of staff who are outsourced. If they refuse the
unions will ballot for action.
NUJ General Secretary, Jeremy Dear, said: “We
will not accept cuts which decimate programmes,
devalue the BBC, short-change licence fee payers,
increase pressures on staff and worsen working conditions.
“Departments across the BBC struggle to fill
rotas today – how will axing 20 per cent of
staff deliver better quality or value for money
for licence fee payers?
“The BBC management have a window of opportunity
to enter meaningful talks with staff representatives.
If they slam the window shut we will act.
“If BBC management won’t stand up for
staff and licence-fee payers – we will.
“This is a grotesque display of self-harm
being inflicted across the whole of the BBC at the
hands of an incompetent management”. |
