National Union of Journalist (NUJ) members at Reed Business Information (RBI) have voted against further industrial action following a strike ballot at the publisher.

In the Wednesday ballot, 111 voted against further action being taken in response to proposed merger of production desks at Flight International, ICIS and Contract Journal and issues of compulsory redundancies.

According to an internal memo seen by Journalism.co.uk, the NUJ chapel will meet with the company again on March 4 to discuss new offers to staff, with separate meetings to be held for members at New Scientist and Estates Gazette.

In the ballot, 64 NUJ members voted in favour of taking industrial action.

Last month the group announced 35 staff redundancies in the UK, citing ‘long-term structural needs’ and the new challenges of the economic downturn.

Parent company Reed Elsevier recently extended loan arrangements for its $2 billion debt.

In December Reed terminated the sale of magazine arm RBI, as a result of ‘the recent deterioration in macro-economic outlook and poor credit market conditions’.

• NUJ: More strife for Newsquest as four more NUJ centres vote to strike
• NUJ members ballot for strike at north-east Newsquest titles
• FOLIO: RBI to close 23 magazines in US
• DutchNews.nl: RBI to grow online income by 50 per cent in three years
• Strike dates announced at Newsquest South London

With a little a lot of help from our friends (take a bow Headshift’s Tim Duckett) there’s a new Twitter kid on the block – @jocoukshares.

Following Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press’ exits from the FTSE 250, the aim is to provide almost real-time share price information for the newspaper and magazine publishing groups currently listed on the FTSE.

Below is a key to the company names:

FUTR – Future Publishing

CAU – Centaur

TNI – Trinity Mirror

INM – Independent News & Media

REL – Reed Elsevier

PSON – Pearson

JPR – Johnston Press

DMGT – Daily Mail & General Trust

INF – Informa

NWS – News Corp

Tim’s made stirling progress with setting up feeds of the share prices to Twitter and there’s no reason why this couldn’t be expanded beyond newspapers and mags in the future.

However, suggestions about a ‘front-end’ for the project are welcome. Building a newspaper-share-price-feed-tracking widget will probably be one of my Christmas Eve tasks – any suggestions?

• Guardian: Trinity Mirror and DMGT mulled merger of regional media
• The top 10 most-read stories on Journalism.co.uk, 4-10 June
• Independent: Trinity and Johnston Press to merge?
• NUJ Release: NUJ condemns more job cuts at Trinity Mirror regionals
• Sky News: Trinity Mirror approached Mecom for merger

The RBI sale could soon be over, reports PaidContent:UK – ‘it looks like Reed Elsevier will either get less than it hoped or pull the sale altogether.’

• RBI Divestment Watch blog closed?
• Timeline of RBI sale
• FOLIO: RBI to close 23 magazines in US
• FT.com: Reed Elsevier sells Nordic division of RBI
• MediaGuardian: Bertelsmann will bid for RBI magazines