NUJ members have voted 97.3 per cent in favour of a strike against 18 job losses at the Johnston Press-owned Post and Evening Post (and across Yorkshire and beyond). It will see two 4-day strikes this week and the next.
Pete Lazenby, NUJ Yorkshire Evening Post Father of Chapel, explains: "This situation exists because management handed out hundreds of millions of pounds in bonuses and dividends to directors and shareholders while at the same time borrowing hundreds of millions of pounds for an over-ambitious acquisition programme. The company is now demanding that we pay for its mismanagement with our jobs.”
The strike from Thursday 19 to Sunday 23 February, and Thursday February 26 to Sunday March 1. Forthcoming info on picketline times and place, please visit with your union banners and send messages of support to nujleedsstrikers@googlemail.
Strike action will involve 141 members of the NUJ, mainly in Leeds, but also affecting offices in Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Wakefield, London, Harrogate, Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley, Scarborough, and Northallerton.
More info can be found on http://www.nuj.org.uk/