Ten thousand BBC workers are to face the jobs axe in the next three years, in a campaign to cut its workforce by nearly 50 per The recommendation to BBC director general manaet onesand comes in an unpublished report, inappropriately titled Providing Our Services. Broadcasting union BECTU described the move as political attack to destroy the BBC and its indepondence.' The report described the massive cuts as a соптитють то росого алог апо fitter.
BECTU is planning a day of action as a vote of no confidence in either the incoming director general, John Birt, or chairman Duke Hussey But if the cuts are to be beaten back need to give a firmer answer than that. 4 April 9 April ¡Subscribe to Socialist Outlook