Mersey Television redundancies fear

Mersey Television management has told 13% of its workforce they are "at risk of redundancy".
New management at Mersey Television, the company that produces Hollyoaks for Channel 4, has told 44 people they are potentially redundant less than a year after telling staff it did not intend to do this.
Mersey TV owners All-3-Media also seeks to make major changes in the working schedule and to the existing workplace agreement recently settled between Bectu and the old management after four years of negotiations.
Indications so far are that all the proposed new terms would be worse than the existing ones, and it seems nothing is offered in return for accepting them.
Representatives from the threatened departments and from BECTU are in discussion with management to see how these matters can be resolved.
(GB)