Staff at the Derry Journal are to ballot for industrial action as its owner, Johnston Press (JP), threatens to push through compulsory redundancies. The company, which aims to centralise all its Northern Ireland production in Portadown, has not received enough applications for voluntary redundancies.
The NUJ chapel, after pointing to the fact that the Journal has lost more than 50 jobs since JP acquired the paper in 2006, added: "The Derry Journal survived the Famine, but we fear it may not survive Johnston Press." (Via NUJ)