More than 50 job roles in the air as ABC seeks to make Regional division more efficient
The ABC is set to axe more than 50 roles amid a restructure of its Regional division aimed at making it more efficient by getting staff working across different platforms.
Mumbrella understands 55 roles – 42 regional content manager positions, seven regional content directors and six state editor positions – are being abolished under the plans, although ABC Regional director Fiona Reynolds insisted just 50 roles are being abolished, with 52 more being created.
The Community Public Sector Union (CPSU) and Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) will meet with management over the restructure this afternoon.
ABC management are doing more damage to the organisation than the LNP govt could ever dream of doing themselves.
This is just the latest in a series of disgusting moves, manipulating the Enterprise Agreement to disadvantage staff and exploit those who remain.
Restructuring, ‘change management’ (ha!), and ‘vision’ is all the current management are capable of considering. Content and audiences? Nah, that’s far too like getting your hands dirty…
If ABC audiences knew how ABC Staff were treated by management there’d be a very different tone and target at future ‘Save The ABC’ rallies
In an age where regional media is shrinking, the ABC, Australia’s only media organisation that doesn’t have to worry about making money (the main reason why most regional media companies are disappearing) should be increasing input, therefore fulfilling their reason for being (to provide media that the commercial organisations fail to do). Taking money away from regional stations, in favour of their current investment in to the already competitive online landscape, is appalling.
SA/NT/WA will have one content director??? Bonkers. The “regional” aspect of ABC is all that stopped the back benchers shredding Ultimo is 2014.
This kills that.
Nighty night Ms Launceston.
ABC Management are generally very good and most come from a program making background. Let them get on with it. It’s not easy dealing with Tony Abbotts lies and budget cuts I suspect. Some of the managers are going too.
To be honest Gary Wilson, this mismanagement suggests that they probably should have their budget cut further. Increase it to them when they actually start fulfilling their role (providing services that aren’t sufficiently covered by the commercial media eg. regional services.)
The ABC needs local content to satisfy its audience. Cutting jobs will not improve content. If the ABC does not satisfy its audience then why have it? Is this move a part of a mad right wing plot to kill off the ABC?
The new regional structure for the ABC will achieve one thing. It will very firmly protect the jobs of people in Ultimo who are more senior managers. Check out how many of those positions have gone. (None)
It’s the ABC. It is always about the PWCPs (people with car parks) at Southbank and Ultimo. Always. They are, in the main, part of the most egregiously over-rated pack of mental clunkers in the history of Australian public culture. And we pay for them…