BT announce 16,000 job cuts

Title

BT announce 16,000 job cuts

Genre

Interview

TX Date

11 Oct 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:01:58

Description

George Matheson interviews Alan Tuffin, General Secretary of the Union of Communication Workers (UCW) about the decision of British Telecom to axe 16,000 jobs over the next 18 months from engineering and clerical staff. BT say the cuts are necessary due to the introduction of new technology and the recession but Tuffin says BT has betrayed it’s workers following privatisation. Phone interview.

Contributors

Alan Tuffin; George Matheson

Keywords

Trade unions; Labour disputes; Privatization; Economic recession; Telecommunications industry; BT; Redundancies; UCW; Techonological change

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