Chapels in dispute will get another helping hand as NUJ activists stage another Stand up for Journalism comedy benefit.

Following successful events in London and Glasgow earlier this year, tomorrow’s event will be in Stockport, chosen because the Guardian Media Group has abandoned the area by closing offices.

An industrial action ballot is underway at Signal Radio in Stoke after the three news staff were told their jobs were being cut.

And members at Trinity Mirror titles in the midlands are considering the next steps after management announced it plans to close nine titles and axe 17 journalists’ jobs.

This followed shameful accusations by management that the union was “scaremongering” after it revealed the proposals were outlined in a leaked internal document.

After a week of refusing to come clean, TM then announced even more severe cuts than the NUJ had predicted.

The benefit gig, organised by comedian and NUJ member Julia Brosnan who is also performing, is on Sunday 5 July at 7.30pm in the Baker’s Vault, Market Place, Stockport SK1 1EU. Admission is £5 waged/£3 unwaged.

Posted by Rich Simcox

Tags: comedy, cuts, gig, industrial action, job cuts, Julia Brosnan, National Union of Journalists, NUJ, NUJ Left, Trinity Mirror