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ITV staff shut down channel during strike
Pickets take place across Britain as workers call for pay rise
ITV SERVICES were not running yesterday after journalists, production and other staff went on a 24-hour strike over pay. Pickets took place across the country as well as outside the station’s annual meeting in London, where shareholders were told to support workers’ pay rise after the company’s profits rose by 23 per cent last year.
At the protest technicians’ union Bectu assistant general secretary Spencer MacDonald told the Star he was “really pleased with the turnout.”
He added: “I think overall people are quite fed up in terms of the way the company has treated them.
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