NUJ members vote unanimously for ballot for industrial action following The Independent's decision to cut 27 jobs
NUJ members at the Independent have unanimously voted to ballot for industrial action following the announcement of 27 compulsory redundancies being made at the newspaper.
The union has announced the ballot for action following yesterday’s announcement by recently appointed editor Amol Rajan of the job cuts to be made in the coming months as cost saving measures.
A statement released by the NUJ chapel said that it “deplores this latest attack on editorial quality and on jobs at the Independent, as well as its inevitable knock-on effect at the other Independent Print Limited titles.“
The statement continued: “It has a long-standing and outright opposition to compulsory redundancies and demands that the threat of these be removed. The chapel is also dismayed that no consultation was undertaken before plans for the more than 20 redundancies were announced. The chapel insists on meaningful consultation being held on a collective basis and expresses its deep concern for the future of the Independent Print Limited Titles.
"The Chapel moves to ballot for industrial action up to and including a strike."
Despite making the jobs on the newspaper redundant, the newspaper has claimed that it will employ up to 20 roles on its website over the next six months and create another 60 for the running of its new TV station, London Live.