The NUJ in the newsJournalists on Johnston Press titles in the North are balloting for action over the introduction of new technology. The content management system is leading to greater workloads on some staff while threatening the jobs of others. Production staff in Scarborough have also been told that they will have to move to Sheffield. Here, Stephanie Pride, Joint MoC at Scarborough office, explains the dispute.
The BA cabin crew have shown extraordinary spirit in the face of bullying management and a hostile press. Their two resounding YES votes for striking show that they determined to force BA to negotiate. The cabin crew are out again on 27 March. Here an NUJ Left member reports on the first Saturday of the strike.
Journalists in Sheffield and Scarborough who work for Johnston Press are balloting for action over a new content management system that threatens jobs and standards in local journalism.
NUJ reps from across Johnston Press newspapers are to hold a conference this weekend (Saturday 20 March) to prepare for a ballot on industrial action to save jobs at dozens of the company’s titles, writes Peter Murray, NUJ president. Read the rest of this entry »
The national NUJ Left meeting on 6 March discussed two key issues facing the union: the crisis at the BBC and the growth of the BNP/EDL. Other subjects discussed were union democracy, solidarity with Russian workers and building the NUJ Left.
Staff at the Financial Times recently had an impressive victory in standing up for four Chinese journalists. Management had planned to move the four to China and cut their pay by up to 50 Per cent. In only a few days NUJ members organised a mass chapel meeting and beat back the attack. Here, Father of the Chapel, Dave Crouch, explains how the victory was achieved and how it has improved morale on the paper
The NUJ Left will be holding a meeting on Saturday, 6 March in London from midday to 4pm. There will be a session on Expose, the media campaign against the BNP, which was launched recently. Also there will be sessions on the Press Association, union democracy and organising activists.
The immediate defence by journalists at the Financial Times of Chinese colleagues threatened by management with redundancy has brought complete victory. The FT chapel demanded unanimously that the redundancy threat be lifted from their four colleagues on the FTChinese website, and warned that otherwise FT journalists would ballot on industrial action. So management changed its mind.
The Scott Trust, which controls the Guardian group, is to sell many of its regional titles and websites to Trinity Mirror. This includes titles such as the Manchester Evening News.
The NUJ is balloting members at the Blackpool Gazette and Herald for industrial action.