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MP meets management over job cuts

Monday 16 June 2008

British MP Austin Mitchell is to meet Thomson Reuters management in an attempt to help resolve a union wrangle over possible compulsory redundancies, Press Gazette reported.

Mitchell, a Labour politician, is chairman of the National Union of Journalists Parliamentary Group.

NUJ official Barry Fitzpatrick said Mitchell would be discussing options for the company. Some 70 UK editorial positions are under threat, the weekly magazine said. Worldwide, the number of journalists’ jobs to be axed is 140. The losses are part of the shake-out from Thomson’s takeover of Reuters in April.

The NUJ was meeting the company today and Fitzpatrick said it has formally initiated a disputes procedure which gives a deadline of 15 July to resolve differences. ■

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Press Gazette