Yet another round of redundancies is looming at the paper.
Mark Dodson
Staff were informed on Thursday that management intended to reduce staff numbers further and were seeking ‘voluntaries’….but delivered with a clear implication that ‘compulsories’ would follow if numbers not sufficient…
Mark Dodson, chief executive of GMG's Manchester operation, said: "The past two years have seen the rate and pace of change in our industry accelerate beyond all predictions. As a company with a large proportion of its revenues linked to print business, we need to increase our rate of change to meet the digital present as well as the future. This will mean that we will be best placed to face the demands of an increasingly competitive marketplace."
Staff have until 8 May to register an interest in taking redundancy.
Judy Gordon, mother of the chapel at the MEN said: "It is all departments, not just editorial.
They cannot tell us how many people they are looking for or how much money they are trying to save."
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