Journalists may strike at Trinity's Midlands newspapers
By Leah McBride Mensching, Monday 25 August 2008 at 19:00 :: Labor & Employment :: #2161 :: rss
Journalists at Trinity Mirror's Midlands newspaper group have called for a strike ballot over the publisher's plans to cut 65 jobs, BBC News reported Sunday.
Staffers at the Birmingham Post and Mail, Sunday Mercury and Coventry Telegraph are also given the choice of voluntary redundancy.
Employees at the newspapers in Birmingham would also move to a multimedia newsroom in Fort Dunlop. There will also be a multimedia newsroom for more than one newspaper in Coventry, Trinity Mirror announced last week, the BBC reported.
Trinity Mirror is also looking to sell regional newspapers in Derbyshire, Northampton and Long Eaton.
Trinity Mirror announced last week that all 300 editorial employees at the group's Midlands papers are being made redundant, and staffers will have to reapply for new positions “as part of radical plans to overhaul the company's publishing operation in the region.” The new editorial system with multimedia newsrooms in Fort Dunlop and Coventry is part of the new system.
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