Amongst BBC political staff, there’s mounting concern about the plans for a strike
during Tory conference. One of them said to me at Labour conference that they just didn’t know what to do, they had been put in an impossible position by the decision to call the strike on
such politically important days.
These journalists fear that striking during Tory conference would undermine the corporation’s reputation for impartiality. So, a whole host of them wrote to their union rep asking him to make
representations on their behalf. His reply shows just the level of hostility these people — who are just trying to do their job — are up against:
‘Of course I will represent your views, and those of others at Millbank who have supported the strikes in spite of the timing. No one at Millbank has jumped for joy at the choice of dates, me included.
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