BBC Tech Staff To Strike Over Outsourcing

KingFishKingFish
edited July 2004 in Science & Tech
The trade union for BBC's IT staff has voted overwhelmingly to go on strike, following the announcement last week that the British broadcaster will outsource its tech division to Siemens.
More than 80 percent of BBC technology staff affiliated with the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union voted to strike after the German company wouldn't meet its demands over pensions and guarantees of jobs for current BBC workers. The union asked Siemens to guarantee that no BBC technology employees would be made redundant within three years, but the company would only guarantee a one-year period before it would be able to introduce compulsory redundancies.
Source: C|Net
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