{"id":22580,"date":"2020-07-07T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=22580"},"modified":"2020-07-07T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:31:46","slug":"jobs-to-go-at-media-firm-reach-covid-19-cited-as-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=22580","title":{"rendered":"Jobs to go at media firm Reach \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Covid-19 cited as reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The loss of 550 jobs at newspaper giant Reach is the latest example of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Unite said today (Tuesday July 7).<\/p>\n<p>Reach, the owner of the <em>Daily Mirror<\/em> and the <em>Daily Express<\/em>, as well as a number of local titles said it is cutting 12 per cent of its workforce as revenues slumped by nearly 30 per cent in the quarter to June.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is just another example of a company that was financially sound before the pandemic being impacted drastically over the last three months,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer for the media industry, Louisa Bull.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bReach is now taking steps to realign the business to safeguard as many jobs as possible.\u00c2\u00a0 We will be working with Reach during this process and supporting our members in the commercial areas on both the national and regional titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe newspaper sector has been in decline for some time and the tensions between print and digital have only been exacerbated at this time,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 she said.<\/p>\n<p>But at least in this gloom there is some better news for Unite members. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bReach has also confirmed that our members working in the print sites are not impacted by today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announcement,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Bull added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Shaun Noble <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loss of 550 jobs at newspaper giant Reach is the latest example of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Unite said today (Tuesday July 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[1295,263,382],"wps_subtitle":"Unite: Job losses another example of pandemic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impact","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22582,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22580\/revisions\/22582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}