01-11-2022, 12:03 PM
Forgive me for saying this, and of course I have immense sympathies for those who are losing their jobs over this closure, but was it not really unprofessional for the Cambridge team to decline to do a bulletin last night?
Unfortunately, these kind of redundancies/restructurings/closures happen all the time across different industries and there aren’t many professions in which those affected can just decide not to do their job in order to prove a point.
I don’t get the impression that this was an organised strike by the NUJ, for example (which I’d be supportive of in the circumstances) - this seemed far more ad-hoc. I just don’t understand how this can be considered a proportionate response and there aren’t many professions in which you’d get away with it.
And I fully accept that I am opening myself up to be branded ‘heartless’ and so on - I totally sympathise with those affected and I am not supportive of the closure of the service. I was just flabbergasted that the staff elected to pull this move, and I wonder how the BBC will react to this.
Unfortunately, these kind of redundancies/restructurings/closures happen all the time across different industries and there aren’t many professions in which those affected can just decide not to do their job in order to prove a point.
I don’t get the impression that this was an organised strike by the NUJ, for example (which I’d be supportive of in the circumstances) - this seemed far more ad-hoc. I just don’t understand how this can be considered a proportionate response and there aren’t many professions in which you’d get away with it.
And I fully accept that I am opening myself up to be branded ‘heartless’ and so on - I totally sympathise with those affected and I am not supportive of the closure of the service. I was just flabbergasted that the staff elected to pull this move, and I wonder how the BBC will react to this.