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They were angered at the proposals announced by director general Mark Thompson to axe one in five jobs (6000) at the Corporation, ( decimate badgets, soll off two BBC Commercial subsidiaries and outsource hall of all programme-making. The reforms' represent the most drastic package of cuts in the BBC's history yet Mark Thompson refused to dis. cuss them with the unlons.
Paul McGowan resume strike action If those talks 'don't dellver'.
Mark Thompson clalms thát by making savings of £335m annually over the next three years, he will put the BBC in a stronger position in coming negotiations with the government over the Corporation's future structure and funding.
But his cuts, argue the unions and medla campalgners, will do precisely the opposite, damaging quality of output and outsourced the few remaining dancies while tacitly accepting the possibility of privatisation by calling on him to protect the terms and conditions of any Jobs that may be outsourced....
StI, BBC staff make up a slantficant part of BECTU and NUJ membership so these unlons know that the very survival of their organisations, as well as the jobs of their members and the future of public sorvice broadcasting, could bo at stake. in London offices in recent DON'T CROSS
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FOR OUR BBC On the picket line outside BBC Lelcester studlos
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