Archive for September 2008

Today’s announcement signals ITV’s decision to move to ‘regional’ rather than local news.

BECTU has accused Ofcom and ITV of betraying regional audiences after the regulator gave the go-ahead to massive cuts in services.

Members at Johnson Controls International have voted to accept a 4% pay increase, backdated to the pay anniversary date of 1 July.

BECTU is a partner is an industry and nationwide campaign to bring more black and minority ethnic students into student radio.

Freelances working on EastEnders have won the right to be represented by BECTU, it was confirmed last night.

BECTU members working in West End theatres have accepted a 4.8% pay award effective from 6 October 2008.

Ambassadors Theatre Group staff in Glasgow have voted to fight planned redundancies and a plan to migrate their work to London.

Members employed by Culture and Sport Glasgow have been called to take part in a joint union 24-hour strike on 24 September 2008.

Bournemouth is the venue for BECTU’s next Annual Conference in April 2009, which again follows a new format.

BECTU is advertising a vacancy for a national official, based in London. The deadline for applications is Friday 26 September 2008.

On the first day of the TUC’s annual conference, delegates have delivered overwhelming support for BECTU’s two motions.

The BBC is to launch a new initiative, the Journalism Talent Pool, which aims to improve diversity in the Corporation’s newsrooms.

BECTU is inviting West End theatre workers to take part in focus groups looking at the updating of roles in nine job families.

Members at Wilson James, the BBC’s security contractor in London, have accepted a 3.8% pay rise backdated to 1 July 2008.

Members at Culture and Sport Glasgow are following their strike last week with a work to rule in pursuit of better pay.