“Thousands of journalists at the BBC are to hold two national one-day strikes against compulsory redundancies,” the National Union of Journalists reports.
The focus is on cuts at the World Service’s South Asian section where up to 20 positions are at risk of being cut.
“NUJ members at the corporation voted 77 percent in favour of strike action in a national ballot,” the release said.
A motion was passed declaring that industrial action will take place on Friday 3 April and Thursday 9 April ‘in the event that further talks fail to resolve the issue’.