Thousands of BBC journalists are being balloted for strike action in response to the threat of compulsory redundancies across the Corporation. Around 100 BBC journalists based in the World Service, BBC Monitoring, Online, and in Scotland and Wales are threatened with compulsory redundancy.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), which represents the majority of journalists at the BBC, is to ballot members after the BBC refused to consider further moves to secure redeployment or find alternative opportunities for around 100 staff.
NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear said: “For months we have been negotiating with the BBC and have been able to resolve most cases by agreement. But the BBC’s refusal to consider workable alternatives for around 100 staff has left us with no choice but to ballot members for industrial action to defend jobs and services. There is no justification for these compulsory redundancies.”
The union begins the ballot this week.
(Source: NUJ website via Radio Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
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