All Bectu articles – Page 49
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Wildlife centralises.
Granada completed the integration of former United News & Media ITV franchises Anglia and Meridian this week, announcing up to 100 job losses and the pooling of all wildlife programming into
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White paper will date too rapidly.
Media select committee chairman Gerald Kaufman has suggested the government's communications white paper will be dead before it is translated into legislation.At the second session of the select committee's inquiry into
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Media select committee chairman expresses doubts on white paper
Gerald Kaufman argues paper will be 'dead before legislation'
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STAFF ACTION AT MTV?
Employees at MTV's broadcast services division are to be balloted on industrial action from 22 January. The ballot is the latest development in an ongoing dispute over proposed cuts to paid
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BBC staff resist cuts in expenses.
The BBC faces the prospect of industrial action across the corporation, as union Bectu prepares to ballot its BBC members over proposals to change expense allowances, writes Barbara Marshall.
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MTV accuses Bectu of 'perpetuating inaccuracies' as contract row escalates
Music broadcasters claims dispute only affects a 'small number' of broadcast services staff
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MTV braced for strike action
Bectu members ballot could see new contract dispute escalate into industrial action as early as next month
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Bectu recommends Resources veto
Union says members should vote against last week's revised offer from management
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MTV FAILS TO AVERT STAFF ACTION WITH OFFER
An MTV offer intended to resolve an ongoing dispute over employment with its 70 broadcast services staff has failed to avert threats of legal action. MTV is understood to have made
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BBC and Bectu both claim strike victory
Both sides claimed victory after last Saturday's 24-hour BBC strike as a spokeswoman said the action had 'no effect on the audience enjoyment of programmes', while Bectu claimed the action resulted
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Both sides claim victory after 24-hour BBC strike
Further action possible as 15th December deadline looms
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Dyke faces up to first Resources strike
Bectu members to stage industrial action this weekend over BBC redundancy and pay cut plans
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Minorities 'betrayed' by broadcast sector
The broadcast industry employs more than 115,000 people, according to the first ever census of the TV, radio and new media industries - far more than the government's previous estimate of
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CENSUS - Who's working the system
The television and radio industries have never been quantified before. But the Audio Visual Industries Training Group has done the first ever census of TV and radio staff. The survey was taken in May and shows the industry is male-dominated, with many min
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TV industry 'no better than police in betrayal of ethnic minorites' says union boss
Bectu boss reacts to AVITG/DCMS census which shows less than nine per cent of TV staff employed from ethnic backgrounds
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Bectu takes stand on Technology plan
Members of broadcasting union Bectu voted last week against the principle of the BBC creating a separate limited company for its technology activities, in a re-run of the ballot originally held
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BECTU HOLDS OFF BALLOT OF BBC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Bectu has cancelled a ballot of members of the former BBC education department following a meeting with its members on 1 November. A Bectu spokesman told Broadcast that it was now
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MTV staff invoke Act
A row over new terms and conditions could lead to music channel MTV being the first UK broadcaster to be taken to task under new employment rules, writes Simon Ellery.