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23/03/2009

BBC Strike Looms

An industrial relations battle is hotting up as thousands of BBC journalists across the nation are ready to hold two days of strike action.
TV, radio and online news will be disrupted on Friday 3 April and Thursday 9 April after nearly 800 members of the National Union of Journalists chapel at the BBC today voted in favour of industrial action in a national ballot.
The move is over the threats of compulsory redundancy at the corporation
More than 1,100 of the union's nearly 4,000 members at the corporation took part in the vote, 77% of whom voted in favour of a strike.
The most urgent threat of compulsory cuts is at the World Service's South Asian section, where up to 20 members are at risk, the union has said.
Staff in Scotland are also understood to be under threat.
London-based journalists on the BBC Hindi, Nepali, and Urdu radio programmes and websites have already held a one-day strike over the proposed cuts.
Union representatives from across the BBC condemned the threat hanging over colleagues at a meeting during March.
They called on management to enter "meaningful negotiations" instead and to withdraw the threat of compulsory redundancies.
The union said it was opposed to compulsory redundancies in all parts of the BBC, adding that the strike would take place if further talks with BBC management "fail to resolve the issue".
(BMcC/JM)
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