http://www.bectu.org.uk BECTU's main website Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:23:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Members in BBC Radio Outside Broadcasts will start a programme of industrial action next week in pursuit of a pay and regrading claim. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/23/radio-ob-engineers-to-strike/ The deadlock in construction crew negotiations has been broken following talks at ACAS. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/23/breakthrough-for-film-construction/ Border TV's campaign to save its flagship programme, Lookaround, prompted 13,000 people to write to Ofcom. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/20/border-campaign-wins-huge-support/ BECTU is leading a campaign to keep BBC daytime series, Doctors, in production at its Birmingham site. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/14/keep-bbcs-doctors-in-birmingham/ In a consultative ballot 77% of BBC Resources members have voted to accept a new pay and pensions package. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/11/new-resources-pay-and-pensions/ A tribunal case brought by BECTU on behalf of former staff at the Derby Playhouse has succeeded. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/10/derby-playhouse-tribunal-win/ The ballot for a National Executive Committee representative for the union's London Production Division opens in a week's time. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/10/lpd-ballot-for-nec-representative/ Union officials have reminded freelances working for the BBC to examine how they are being treated in respect of holiday pay. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/10/the-bbc-and-freelance-holiday-pay/ BECTU and the NUJ are campaigning against plans to move significant parts of the BBC World Service overseas. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/09/bbc-world-service-under-threat/ BECTU has criticised BBC executives who opted to take their annual bonuses in a year when some 2000 staff are losing their jobs. http://www.bectu.org.uk/2008/07/08/bectu-slams-bbc-executive-pay/