BBC Staff Vote To Stage Biggest Strike In 13 Years – Deadline

BBC workers have voted to stage their greatest strike in 13 years in protest over the company’s modifications to native content material in England.

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have warned that they may goal King Charles III’s Coronation in May once they down instruments.

Some 83% voted in favour of strike in a postal poll, with the remaining 17% not supporting a walkout. The turnout was 69%, which was greater than some have been anticipating.

An NUJ assembly will happen later immediately to determine on a plan of action after a mandade was secured for industrial motion.

Deadline first reported in January that it was “inevitable” that workers would stage a walkout amid fury at proposals to reduce native tv and radio programming throughout the nation.

The BBC has argued that funding for native content material is being maintained, however it’s reprioritizing £19M ($23M) of assets from conventional broadcast companies to on-line and multimedia manufacturing to “keep pace with changing audience expectations.” This contains rising native information on-line and investing in investigative reporting.

BBC employees haven’t staged a serious strike since 2010, when there was a 48-hour walkout over a pensions dispute. Flagship exhibits, together with Newsnight and Breakfast, fell off air as star presenters together with Fiona Bruce joined the protest.