The Independent covers topics from reproductive rights to climate change and Big Tech while producing documentaries such as 'The A Word' that spotlight American women fighting for reproductive rights. The organisation relies on donations to fund on-the-ground reporting and maintains free access to reporting and analysis without paywalls. ByteDance, TikTok's Beijing-based owner, announced hundreds of London redundancies and said roles would be reallocated across Europe or outsourced. The redundancies were announced a week before staff in its content moderation arm planned a CWU unionisation vote, prompting accusations of union-busting and fears that the move aimed to pressure staff. TikTok later informed the CWU it would pause support for the ballot while redundancy consultations proceed.
TikTok's Chinese owners have been accused of bare-faced union busting by announcing hundreds of layoffs just a week before staff were due to vote on unionisation. The social media platform's Beijing-based owner ByteDance announced on Friday that hundreds of staff in its London office would be made redundant, with their roles being reallocated to offices across Europe and outsourced to third-party providers.
It came just a week before a vote on a bid by employees in the firm's content moderation arm to establish a branch of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for its staff. TikTok is putting hundreds of jobs at risk in the UK as part of a restructure of its trust and safety operations (James Manning/PA) (PA Archive) The announcement of redundancies on Friday raised fears that ByteDance was seeking to pile pressure on staff ahead of the vote on unionisation.
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