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...
by admin | Mar 11, 2010 | nec, nuj
My second NEC (4/5 March) was well attended, eventful and interesting. We made some useful decisions and some less so (well that’s true of most meetings in my experience). At the start, I asked the meeting to mark the death of Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | nec, nuj, unions
Last Thursday’s meeting of the policy committee (PC) was the first for the new NEC. The agenda was lengthy because the remit of the committee is very wide ranging – from parliamentary and TUC matters to international – the International Federation of...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | nuj, photographers, unions
All four London NEC members were present at the birth of the new Photographers’ branch on Tuesday 26 January. The timing could not be better, just 3 days after professional and amateur photographers had gathered in Trafalgar Square to protest against ‘terror stop and...
