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The Herald and Evening Times vote to take industrial action following latest round of Newsquest cuts

on Aug 26, 2015 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

Journalists at The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times have voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action following Newsquest’s announcement that it would cut a further 20 jobs at the papers.

The vote for industrial action includes the possibility of strikes across all three titles and is a result of a third round of redundancies at the paper which will see 18-20 editorial jobs go. Newsquest said that the cuts were necessary to “make further savings to compensate for a decline in advertising revenue”.

A statement released by the NUJ argued that the “Newsquest culture of meeting new budgets by cutting Read full story ›

Source: The Drum