by admin | May 23, 2010 | nec, nuj
Last Friday’s NEC meeting (14 May) was dominated by the action of Johnson Press in their use of the anti-union laws to stop our members taking industrial action, following a successful ballot. On arrival we were given two letters one from the group human resources...
by admin | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
The emergence of the Con-Dem coalition government from 6 May general election poses some interesting questions as to what their media and related policies would be. One interesting observation concerning the Liberal Democrats was made by David Yelland (editor of the...
by admin | May 13, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
On 16 February I blogged that the union had agreed to back a campaign of support for Mordechai Vanunu, an honorary member of the NUJ, who served 18 years in prison for revealing Israel’s secret nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Earlier this week,...
by admin | Apr 21, 2010 | nec
Last week’s policy committee considered its usual wide range of issues. Progress on conference motions was reported, a written update on the work by our representative Pat Healey on the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) was received. The NPC was the driving force...
by admin | Apr 18, 2010 | international
This weekend I should have been in Istanbul as part of the NUJ delegation to the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) annual meeting. But along with two others I’m grounded. Only John Barsby, who had to leave a day earlier for a meeting of the steering committee,...
