5 April 2009
As NUJ members at the Trinity Mirror titles the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail took strike action yesterday over job cuts, the Scottish TUC called for a boycott. Brendan Barber take note.
More about the situation in Scotland will follow.
- Tickets for our comedy benefit gig in London on Wednesday 15 April are now available to sell to friends and colleagues. Ticket sales are a good opportunity to get round workplaces and raise the issue of the cuts and the fightback. Email standupforjournalism@me.com
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31 March 2009
The final line-up for our ’Stand up for journalism’ comedy benefit gig for striking journalists is now confirmed.
Anarchist Andrew O’Neill will join ex-political journalist David Mulholland on the bill which we have previously announced also includes Kate Smurthwaite, Attila the Stockbroker and NUJ member Julia Brosnan.
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27 March 2009
Feminist, journalist and (crucially) comedian Kate Smurthwaite will perform at our ‘Stand up for journalism’ comedy benefit for striking journalists.
Kate describes herself as an “obsessive blogger” and writes her own blog and also posts at the f word.
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25 March 2009
To show solidarity with all our members in dispute and to raise cash for fighting funds, NUJ Left is hosting ‘Stand up for journalism’ – a comedy benefit gig for striking journalists.
It will be at Bar B Lo, 76 Marchmont Street, London, on Wednesday 15 April. Doors open 7.30pm. Nearest tube Russell Square.
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23 March 2009
Nick Higham’s report on tonight’s News at Ten into the decimation of regional media by profit-hungry news organisations was long-overdue – if a little light on analysis when it finally arrived.
Odd though that he didn’t seem to have spoken to the NUJ. Or if he had, its view or those of its members affected by the cuts was not reported, or even reflected.
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18 March 2009
Guardian Media Group activists in Manchester have launched a petition as part of their campaign to save their jobs and newsrooms.
Management at the Manchester Evening News group want to make almost 80 journalists redundant and close all the offices of its Greater Manchester weekly titles.
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17 March 2009
By Pete Murray, NUJ vice president
The jobs carnage across the media in the UK has now triggered a vote for strike action among one of the largest single groups of journalists in the UK.
NUJ members at the BBC have voted by 77% to take industrial action against compulsory redundancies – beginning with two strike days on the 3 and 9 April.
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