The National Union of Journalists has re-scheduled a strike due to be held by its BBC members on Friday. The action will now take place on Monday, 1 August.
The union says it changed the date following representations from members. BBC journalists are taking action over a number of compulsory redundancies at World Service and Monitoring. News output was hit when journalists struck on Friday, 15 July, with some news programmes off air, and national and regional bulletins truncated to five minutes.
(Source: Ariel)
Further disruption is expected as journalists have been told in an internal memo that “an indefinite work to rule will begin across the BBC from 00.01 on Tuesday August 2nd immediately following the 24 hour strike”.
