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Striking gets the message out there, yes. But it won't stop the cuts or achieve anything else. The license fee is currently frozen and it's not going to be unfrozen. If the areas in local radio and news are not cut, other parts of the BBC will need to be cut, or whole channels or radio stations shut instead. Or cuts to drama and entertainment. 
The BBC has no more money. Albeit more people probably care about cuts to local radio and regional news than closing the UK news channel.

Well they are going to have to find some money from somewhere because this option appears to be causing a lot discontent-To me, already it seemed inevitable that this would happen the moment the cuts we're announced-it was a case of when.

Given that in previous strikes they have always managed to get something resembling the current proposals to air in any case I actually think the unions position is extremely weak this time around and management will be able to push through the majority of the changes regardless.
There’s not much damage to be done by essentially restricting what is able to be broadcast to the levels that management are proposing to broadcast in a matter of months in any case and in all probability the only difference in output between any strike day and a random weekday in 6 months time will be the person reading the autocue on BBC1 bulletins (and even then Breakfast could well be as normal given both Charlie and Naga have worked during previous strikes).