Media Guardian- BBC Needs More Job Loss Volunteers – Tara Conlan

BBC's Needs More Job Loss Volenteers
Due to the BBC’s recent failure to raise the TV licensing fee they have been forced to make budget cuts, in order to continue funding towards the new age of digital broadcasting. These budget cuts will come in the form of redundancies within the Current Affairs and Political Programmers.

In an email sent to the staff of the BBC, Helen Boaden outlined the fact that they are processing current volunteers for the proposed redundancies but that so far there had not been enough necessary to meet the budget cuts. The BBC plans to make 321 people redundant over the next two years, but some sectors are struggling to meet the demand for volunteer’s. Boaden wrote: "We remain committed to maximising redeployment and avoiding compulsory redundancies where this is practical”.
BBC News met today with unions to discuss the next steps. The National Union of Journalists and broadcasting union Bectu are meeting on the 22nd to consider if they should ballot for strike action over the planned redundancies across the BBC.
The unions have been angered by BBC Vision's decision not to rule out compulsory redundancies.BBC staff are to ballot for strike