BBC faces strike over thousands of job cuts

Source: telegraph

By Andrew Pierce and Nicole Martin

A strike at the BBC was said to be inevitable last night as Mark Thompson, the director general, prepared to announce the largest number of compulsory redundancies in the corporation's history.

Mr Thompson will tell the BBC Trust today that 2,000 employees — almost a tenth of the workforce — will be sacked in an attempt to find £2 billion in budget cuts.


Mark Thompson will announce that 2,000 employees will be sacked


The decision is controversial, with senior broadcasters such as John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman criticising the management for planning to reduce news and current affairs while finding funds for less popular digital channels and internet sites.

Both BBC managers and broadcasting unions said they felt industrial action was looming. One source predicted the corporation could face the worst strikes for a decade with major programmes likely to be taken off the air.

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1 million pounds per job?

Horseshit.

If each worker were pulling in 40,000 pounds per year it would result in a savings of 80,000,000 pounds. Where's the other 1,920,000,000 pounds gonna come from?

Horseshit.

Ain't neo-liberalism great?

And, of course, any organisation's expenditure is far more than just the salaries of its employees.

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