Times: NATSOPA retreat
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As we go to press, Rupert Murdoch's blackmail against Times workers seems to be succeeding.
The Sunday Times on March 7 reported that NATSOPA clerical chapel negotiators had agreed to 200 jubs going - 60 unfilled vacancies remaining thai way, and 140 voluntary rerundancies.
This would make a package of 450 job cuts, which Murdoch found close enough to his initial demand for 600-plus.
Oi: Wednesday 10th the Times reported that the Times and Sunday Times clerical membership had approved the deal. Tlie main group which had not yet conceded was the Times NATSOPA machine assistants.
The deal could still trip up. But nothing is being done to prepare direct action by Times workers to save jobs - and without that action, the cards have always been stacked in Murdoch's favour.