by admin | Jul 15, 2010 | nec, nuj
Hardly a day goes by without more fall-out from the government’s emergency budget announced last month. Announcements of cuts, some immediate and some to come, abound. No service seems safe and we will all be affected, which is why I have tabled the following...
by admin | Jul 4, 2010 | international, nuj, whistle blowing
The news that Mordechai Vanunu is now in solitary confinement in a prison unit set aside for violent prisoners is an outrage. Amnesty International has already declared him a prisoner of conscience and issued the following statement, and at the last meeting of the NUJ...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | media freedom, nuj, photographers
Investigative photojournalist Marc Vallée, who was one of the guest speakers at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s AGM on Saturday 26 June and videographer Jason Parkinson have received an apology and damages from the Metropolitan Police after being...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | international, nuj, unions
Report on the 2010 IFJ Congress – Cadiz, Spain – 25 -28 May Every three years, the International Federation of Journalists holds its annual congress. Affiliated unions elected their delegates and the NUJ elected ours at the last year’s general meeting in Southport....
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 | Mar 22, 2010 | nec, nuj
Rather a strange question to be asking, even on my second meeting, but it’s something I pondered on at the March meeting, when we were faced with a suggestion from NEC member Nick Serpell that the Council consider reducing the time of meetings to one day (except in...
