Support BA workers
24 March 2010

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.

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Blackpool votes on industrial action
12 February 2010

The NUJ is balloting members at the Blackpool Gazette and Herald for industrial action.

The dispute concerns the company’s failure to consult meaningfully over proposed changes to working arrangements and failure to guarantee there will be no compulsory redundancies. The union is also demanding assurances on staffing numbers, pay, grading and status for those affected by the proposed changes.
“A total of 37 chapel members are being balloted,” said NUJ North of England organiser Chris Morley, “and we plan to send ballot papers out on February 16. TThe ballot is due to close on March 2.”
(taken from NUJ website)
Conference to debate ‘no platform’
3 October 2009

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

The NUJ Left conference will debate our response to the far right and our industrial tactics

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Murray makes waves by the sea
29 September 2009
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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.

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Use the protest to mount the fightback
4 August 2009

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.

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A message to Labour: jobs, education, peace
29 July 2009

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.

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Solid organisation saves jobs at Trinity
28 July 2009

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.

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We are all Trinity journalists now
24 July 2009

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.

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Massive vote for action at Trinity
20 July 2009

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.

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Co-ordinate the Trinity fightback
16 July 2009

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.

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