by admin | Mar 31, 2010 | Campaigns
This month’s NEC gave the green light to two important campaigns which members are urged to get involved in. The first is against the cuts at the BBC. By now this campaign is well underway with many media interviews being undertaken following the cuts announced by BBC...
by admin | Mar 22, 2010 | Campaigns, international
Disappointing to report that the NEC has deferred to its next meeting (14/15 May) a report from the Policy Committee and a further subsequent and positive report from the Committee‘s chair, the President and the General Secretary, that we should circulate material...
by admin | Mar 2, 2010 | BBC, Campaigns, unions
Last Friday’s heavily leaked Times story of cuts at the BBC has been confirmed today with the publication of the BBC strategy review. In it Mark Thompson sets out the BBC’s intention to make £600m in savings through the closure of BBC6 Music, and the BBC Asian...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Campaigns, international, whistle blowing
The recent meeting of the NEC’s policy committee has 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. As I recently reported, he has been placed...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Campaigns, media freedom, photographers
It’s not just professional photographers, including NUJ members, who are angry about the use of Section 44 to prevent photographers going about their work. Many who took part in the Trafalgar Square demonstration on Saturday 23 January were, what you might, call...
by admin | Mar 9, 2005 | Campaigns, international, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
This April sees the first anniversary of the release of Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower. Vanunu walked out of Ashkelon prison on 21 April 2004, but he was still not a free man. In an attempt to silence him, the authorities imposed draconian...
