BBC journalists vote to end months-long dispute over local cuts

BBC local journalists have taken part in three days of strike action this year.

BBC journalists on NUJ strike in March 2023 — BBC journalists with NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet outside Broadcasting House on 15 March. Picture: PA Wire/James Manning

Hundreds of BBC journalists have voted to end a long-running union dispute over cuts to local radio content.

Some 70% of BBC Local NUJ members in radio, TV and online who voted chose to accept a new offer from the BBC. Turnout was 55%.

The union said the deal, which was brokered by ACAS, covered “jobs, income protection, and workload, along with new concessions on recorded radio news bulletins and shared programmes”.

Charlotte Tobitt

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Charlotte Tobitt is UK editor at Press Gazette, having joined the site in February 2018 after spending four years at the Surrey Advertiser.

BBC journalists vote to end months-long dispute over local cuts

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