Hacks at the Financial Times are in open dispute with management after being asked to come into the office four days a week. Apparently there is “no compelling case” to be at their desks for more than three…
Members of the FT’s union have unanimously voted to initiate the paper’s dispute procedure after managing editor Tobias Buck emailed staff with the dreaded proposals. According to the Guardian, the FT chapel of the National Union of Journalists held a “fiery meeting” with Buck to push the issue. The buck stops here…
The FT chapel said in an email to its members:
“The FT chapel believes that the edict comes at a time when, more than ever, our coverage depends on the goodwill and flexibility of editorial staff. [This has resulted] in efforts that have contributed to high productivity, audience engagement and profit.”
The union’s nuclear option is to ballot for strike action. They haven’t pulled that trigger – yet…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”