Derry vote means more strife for Johnston

NUJ members at the Johnston Press-owned Derry Journal have voted 100 percent in favour of taking industrial action over job cuts and the introduction of centralised subbing at the paper, the union said today.
Talks are planned next Tuesday at the Labour Relations Agency - Northern Ireland’s conciliation service.
Johnston Press, which is looking for a buyer for its Irish newspapers, is already facing strike action at Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds.
Derry Journal NUJ chapel has said previously of the proposed job cuts: "The Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press."

'Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press': NUJ chapel

The NUJ chapel at the Derry Journal has called for an industrial action ballot in response to plans to push through compulsory redundancies
The chapel claims that up to seven editorial posts at the Derry Journal are under threat.
It said in a statement: "The Journal chapel strongly believe (and management have not disputed) that more job losses are likely to follow at the Derry Journal. The threatened compulsory redundancies at the Journal is the latest in a series of swathing job losses at the Derry newspaper, since it came under the ownership of Johnston Press in 2006.
"Since then, we have lost more than 50 jobs as one by one, printing, accounts and production jobs were moved out of Derry."
"We are determined to fight to defend our jobs and the integrity of the Derry Journal and we hope there will be an overwhelming vote for strike action. We will be asking for support from fellow trades unionists, our readers, advertisers, and politicians locally and nationally.
"The Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press."