Nicola Brittain, Computing, Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 15:10:00
Move follows a pay freeze, redundancies and restructurings initiated by
Siemens
IT staff working for the BBC?s contractor, Siemens, are currently balloting Siemens signed a 10-year contract with the broadcaster in 2005 to deliver an The deal was struck after the BBC closed its BBC Technology division; most of The ballot for action follows a rejected claim for a �1,200 pay increase per There are currently 600 staff working on the Siemens account and 200 of those The IT company rejected the pay claim but said it would consider This move comes when relations between the contractor and its employees at There are a further 50 jobs at risk in the Network and Server Operations ?The pay freeze comes on the back of a series of redundancies and Chaula speculated that relations between the IT supplier and the broadcaster ?FMT is growing on a weekly basis, and we would not be surprised to see In a statement the BBC said: "As the BBC's technology partner, Siemens are
for strike action as a result of the broadcaster?s decision to introduce a pay
freeze.
enterprise integration architecture layer and other key technologies.
the staff currently working on the Siemens contract were originally employed by
BBC Technology.
Siemens employee submitted by broadcasting union Bectu in October, although
Bectu national official Suresh Chaula said its members would have accepted �450
per head.
are Becta members.
performance-related pay increases. This was unanimously rejected by Bectu?s
members.
the BBC are ?at an all time low? according to Chaula, as it follows 70
redundancies made in the Projects and Media Systems division - the consultation
period for these redundancies was completed in January.
division, which is being outsourced to Romania.
restructurings initiated by Siemens and so adds insult to injury," Chaula said.
were strained when the former was unable to take ownership of the Digital Media
Initiative, a project that includes digitising media capture, post production,
and the digitising of the BBC's archive. The initiative has since been
in-sourced to the BBC's Future Media and Technology (FMT) division.
further Siemens staff moved from that account and back into the BBC.?
responsible for keeping our services on-air and online. They have kept us
informed as talks have progressed and assured us that, in the event of strike
action, contingency plans are in place to ensure there will be no adverse effect
on audiences."?
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2258396/bbc-strike-action
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