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Unite is dismayed to learn that Newsquest in Oxford, Brighton and Swindon are proposing to dismiss their employees in pursuit off bigger profits by off shoring their advertising setting to an American company called 2AdPro who then outsource the work to India.

The pre-press workers who work for the local paper, who are not particularly high paid for the industry on between £300 and £400 per week, will have their work done by people who will be expected to do the same work for a few dollars a week.

Steve Sibbald, National Officer for Unite, said: “We as a union do not object to work being transferred around the world on a fair and equitable basis. However, what is really galling is that this company claims to be a local newspaper providing news for local people and relying on local input who are now dismissing their staff with people working 5,000 miles away doing the same work at a tiny fraction of the cost in order to increase already big profits.

“The local people that advertise with these papers and that buy them should be made well aware of this and make their choices on that basis.”

For further information please contact Steve Sibbald on 07860 538537 or Ashraf Choudhury in the Unite Press Office on 020 7420 8914 or 07980 224761

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