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Strike threat as ITV News plans to axe over 400 jobs



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Published Date: 01 October 2008
ITV News is facing the threat of strikes after announcing plans to axe more than 400 jobs across its regional services under plans to save millions of pounds.
A letter sent to journalists, technical staff and other employees in England and Wales said current staffing levels of 1,075 would be reduced to 646, a cut of 429 jobs.

Unions condemned the proposals and warned of possible industrial action.

The company has already said it wants to make savings of £40 million and unions were braced for details of job cuts, with officials saying their worst fears had been realised.

Laura Davison, assistant broadcasting officer of the National Union of Journalists, said it was a "really bad day" for ITV News staff, estimating that the cuts amounted to 40 per cent of the total staff.

"We do not accept the level of cuts ITV News wants to make and it is difficult to see how we can avoid a fight over this," she said.

ITV said it could not rule out compulsory redundancies.





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  • Last Updated: 30 September 2008 10:34 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: ITV
 
1

Matt there,

Somewhere 01/10/2008 11:11:47
Greedy ITV. I hope they do strike.
2

JayDeeTee,

01/10/2008 12:46:33
The could start with the news programmes. Why is it necessary to have two or three people reading the news, one giving us the sports news and another the weather? They could save a fortune by combining these cozy wee jobs into one.
3

JayDeeTee,

01/10/2008 12:50:44
Actually, they could probably cut the news programmes down to one a day, instead of morning, noon and night. They should have a main bulletin at night and that's it, and they should be forced to report real news, instead of sitting on a sofa yaking about trivial little stories that nobody is interested in (well, not if you are a bloke anyway).

 

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