The NUJ in the newsThe 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.
The NUJ is balloting members at the Blackpool Gazette and Herald for industrial action.
The strategy of denying a platform to fascists will be one of the key issues discussed at the NUJ Left conference later this month.
Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism, will lead the debate on the subject brought again into focus following the BBC’s decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin onto Question Time.
The NUJ Left conference will debate our response to the far right and our industrial tactics
Photo: Jonathan Warren
NUJ vice president Pete Murray says the Labour party has “lost its will to fight” and only united action from the unions and others can defend jobs and defeat the far right.
Speaking on behalf of the NUJ at the Jobs, Education, Peace rally in Brighton on Sunday, Pete contrasted the protesters out on the streets in the sunshine with those shut up inside the Labour party conference centre opposite.
Branches and chapels will be urged to sign up to a campaign to put jobs and journalism at the top of the political and industrial agenda this autumn.
Activists met this evening to begin planning the NUJ’s involvement in what we hope will be a massive showing of union solidarity at the Labour party conference on 27 September.
by Dave Crouch
We are living through the worst economic crisis for 60 years. No one has any idea how it will pan out or when it will end.
Unemployment is soaring. Yet where are the unions? We should be battering on the doors of parliament.
Great news from the Birmingham Post and Mail that the chapels have secured an agreement there will be no compulsory redundancies.
Congratulations to the chapel members who mounted a solid, united resistance to these proposals, voting massively in favour of a strike.
This time next week, journalists on Trinity Mirror’s titles in the midlands are likely to have staged a strike in defence of jobs and journalism in the region and be planning their next move.
After a massive vote in favour, the members at the Birmingham Post and Mail, Coventry Telegraph, Sunday Mercury and Midlands Weekly Media titles plan to walk out on Thursday 30 July.
NUJ members working for Trinity Mirror in the midlands will meet later this week to discuss what action to take after a resounding strike vote.
Of those who voted, 84% opted to take industrial action and 97% for action short of a strike after the company announced plans to close nine titles and cut 17 journalists’ jobs in the region.
News today that NUJ members in Middlesbrough are to ballot over threatened compulsory redundancies brings the total of Trinity Mirror chapels currently considering industrial action to five.
Members at the Evening Gazette are particularly angry that they are facing more cuts after jobs went six months ago, the NUJ reports.