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Birmingham action vote: NUJ in talks on workload
Journalists at Trinity Mirror’s Birmingham Post and Mail are continuing their campaign against management cutback plans that will hit quality and increase workloads, following a vote for industrial action. Negotiations are continuing with the company.
The company wants to cut production sub-editors from its operations at the end of January,” explains NUJ Northern Regional Organiser Chris Morley, “ and journalists on the papers are worried this will create unmanageable workloads for the staff who remain.
Management claims that a new editorial computer system means the cuts can be made without damaging quality, but NUJ members say that in practice putting the papers together requires more work than the company expected. They also say that the move to a weekly Post and a new publishing schedule for the Mail mean that in some cases workload has actually increased.
22 January 2010
