Wednesday 29 July 2009

Coventry strike cancelled

NUJ members at Trinity Mirror's Coventry Newspapers have followed their colleagues in Birmingham by calling off tomorrow’s planned strike over compulsory redundancies.
According to the union, the decision was taken after management agreed to redeploy three weekly paper reporters who had been facing redundany.
Negotiations are continuing over the future of another reporter and a photographer. Yesterday the Trinity Mirror NUJ chapels in Birmingham said they had secured an agreement that there would be no compulsory redundancies as part of Trinity's plans to close nine weekly papers. closed.
Journalists working for Trinity in Newcastle and Middlesbrough are balloting for action over cuts.

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