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BBC Bristol Strike News

BBC Bristol Strike News

THE BBC’s flagship news programmes were taken off the air nationwide and in Bristol today as journalists at the region’s biggest broadcasting centre staged a one-day strike.

Murdoch the cause of BBC Redundancies?

Murdoch the cause of BBC Redundancies?

As thousands of journalists are preparing for a 24-hour strike tomorrow (July 15) to fight compulsory redundancies being imposed by BBC management the NUJ have called for re-examination of News Corp’s involvement in the matter. Strike Information Tomorrow sees the first BBC national strike over the issue of compulsory redundancies by management in order to [...]

BBC national strike to stop the pensions robbery; BBC Bristol; 05 November 2010. (Photo © Simon Chapman)

NUJ suspends Bristol NUJ strike

BBC NUJ reps have voted by 51-1 to suspend a strike planned for Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 November, meaning that staff at BBC Bristol will not be taking action.

BBC staff and Branch members, including NUJ dog, on the picket line at BBC Bristol, Whiteladies Road; 05 November 2010. (Photo © Simon Chapman)

View from the picket line: BBC pensions strike in Bristol, 5 November

by a Father of Chapel I turned up for picket duty on Friday on my bike at 8 a.m. in the pouring rain at Whiteladies Road. Despite the weather, I was glad to see several colleagues already holding placards at the back gate on Belgrave Road, the only working entrance that time of the day. They had been [...]

BBC national strike to stop the pensions robbery; BBC Bristol; 05 November 2010. (Photo © Simon Chapman)

BBC strike news

The BBC strike over pensions has demonstrated great solidarity as NUJ members who work for the BBC went out on strike across the country.