All Bectu articles – Page 49

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    MTV escapes strike

    2001-03-01T08:50:00Z

    Employees press for union recognition but vote falls short of industrial action

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    BBC staff vote over expenses.

    2001-02-23T00:00:00Z

    BBC staff are set to go ahead with the first corporation-wide resistance to director general Greg Dyke's planned overhaul, following a vote last week by BBC Bectu members for industrial action over proposals to change expenses allowances, writes Georgina

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    Bectu members vote for BBC action

    2001-02-15T15:52:00Z

    BBC and BBC Resources staff vote in favour of industrial action after coporation seeks to cut expense claims

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    Chrysalis' revamp goes for scale.

    2001-02-09T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who observes the changing fashions in industry, not to mention those working for plcs, knows that the pendulum is constantly swinging between a 'small is beautiful' philosophy and a belief

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    Wildlife centralises.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    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.

    2001-02-02T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-02-01T08:44:00Z

    Gerald Kaufman argues paper will be 'dead before legislation'

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    STAFF ACTION AT MTV?

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    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.

    2001-01-19T00:00:00Z

    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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    BBC staff may rally against expenses cuts

    2001-01-18T08:38:00Z

    Bectu prepares to ballot its BBC members

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    MTV accuses Bectu of 'perpetuating inaccuracies' as contract row escalates

    2001-01-17T17:17:00Z

    Music broadcasters claims dispute only affects a 'small number' of broadcast services staff

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    MTV braced for strike action

    2001-01-16T14:44:00Z

    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

    2001-01-11T16:27:00Z

    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

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-12-08T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-12-07T11:01:00Z

    Further action possible as 15th December deadline looms

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    Dyke faces up to first Resources strike

    2000-11-30T08:39:00Z

    Bectu members to stage industrial action this weekend over BBC redundancy and pay cut plans

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    Minorities 'betrayed' by broadcast sector

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    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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    Resources staff vote for strike

    2000-11-23T14:24:00Z

    London-based BECTU members vote 74% in favour