Up to 12 jobs at risk at Yorkshire Post and Evening Post, says union

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The planned integration of controversial content management system Atex at two more Johnston Press titles could put up to 12 jobs at risk, the NUJ claims. According to an announcement on the union site losses at the Yorkshire Post and Evening Post may include compulsory redundancies.

The Atex system has caused a number of problems at the newspaper group and other which use it, including misaligned pictures or headline mishaps such as the case of a Bedford Times and Citizen's headline in June, which read "headline headghgh".

The NUJ says it calls on the company's management to look at all possible alternatives to redundancy.

"We have had plenty of opportunity to see Atex introduced into other Johnston Press newsrooms," Chris Morley, Northern and Midlands Organiser for the NUJ said in the announcement on its website. "In many it has been a disaster, only mitigated by our members' sheer professionalism to get the paper out.

"We will not tolerate the cack-handed introduction of Atex in Leeds that threatens to force journalists out of work and leave those who remain under intolerable pressure. Our members will need to be fully convinced that the system does what the company says it can do and that they have access to the best training and support.

"They are not willing to pay the price with their health and family lives so the company needs to work with our members rather than seek to maximise cost savings too quickly."

Johnston Press declined to comment.