Seventeen jobs are to go at Glasgow's Herald & Times group and eight of the redundancies will be compulsory, reports All Media Scotland.
The posts across all three titles - The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times - are being axed as management introduces a new editorial production system.
When news of possible job cuts emerged last month the National Union of Journalists issued ballot papers asking whether its members wanted to take industrial action. That looks inevitable now, according to a tweet posted on NUJScotland.
The NUJ's Scottish organiser, Paul Holleran, said: "I can't believe the company are doing this. They are making compulsory redundancies on what are nearly statutory terms and expecting our members to embrace a new production system, with new unsociable hours for many."
The Herald & Times is owned by Newsquest, whose parent company is the US media giant Gannett.
Source: AllMediaScotland
