by admin | Sep 13, 2010 | Campaigns, unions
An extensive study commissioned by the TUC, which meets in Manchester this week, has found that the ConDems proposed spending cuts will hit the poorest 10 times harder than the richest. Pensioners and single parents will suffer the most, with all but the top 10% of...
by admin | Jul 22, 2010 | nuj, Press, unions
Banner Theatre has been working with the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom and the National Union of Journalists to develop Embedded with the Bankers, a new 25-minute live music and video performance, which asks the question: Why didn’t the UK media warn...
by admin | Jul 22, 2010 | nuj, photographers, unions
Two letters about payment for photographers, from members in the CWU and Aslef unions, which appeared in the current issue of the Journalist, were criticised at last Friday’s NEC meeting. Both letters, which appear on pages 26 and 27, suggested that photographers...
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 | 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 | 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...
