Archive for Independent Broadcasting

A revised pay offer from Red Bee Media is now being considered by BECTU members.

Union members at Red Bee have stopped short of delivering a mandate for strike action in pursuit of a better pay offer for 2008/09.

BECTU has urged ITV to reconnect to public service and to reclaim its reputation for good quality programmes.

The industrial action ballot of members at Red Bee Media is entering its final week; the vote will close on 13 August.

Channel 4 no longer employs its own playout staff following their transfer to Red Bee Media on 1 August.

The London Studios, part of ITV, has started a 30-day consultation with BECTU over proposed job losses.

This week’s leak suggesting that Ofcom favours the retention of the Border licence has prompted an open letter to ITV’s Michael Jermey.

A two-year agreement at ITN, which has been backed by members, has headed off a dispute with the company.

A consultative ballot on a 4.5% pay offer for Arqiva members is underway.

BECTU has accused ITV of failing to deliver on its 5-year plan after 89 job losses were announced yesterday in Leeds and Manchester.

Discussions at ITN over the company’s proposals to make £300,000 worth of savings from staff benefits could soon be put into dispute.

The campaign by Border TV staff to save their much-loved local news programme arrives in London today.

BECTU is strongly critical of ITV’s revised proposal for Regional News which is published today.

The Competition Commission’s decision to allow Macquarie to buy National Grid Wireless paves the way for significant change.

BECTU officials are to brief the union’s parliamentary group on the current threat to ITV regional news on 26 March.