About Us
Affiliations
The NUJ is a passionate campaigner for media freedom, the rights of journalists, workers' rights and for social justice at home and internationally.
To meet our aims the NUJ is an active affiliate of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Scottish TUC, Wales TUC and Irish Congress of Trades Unions, which bring together trade unions from across different industries to campaign for policies and legislation on worker's rights, employment law, equality matters, media issues, peace and social justice. We are also actively involved in Britain in many local trades union councils and also with trades councils in Ireland
The NUJ is also affiliated to the Federation of Entertainment Unions, an umbrella group for all unions working in the media and entertainment industries. We belong to campaigning organisations such as the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, The Institute of Employment Rights, the United Campaign for the Repeal of the Anti-Union Laws and the NUJ works with broad-based campaigning groups such as Liberty, Mediawise, the Creators Rights Alliance and the Exiled Journalists Network.
As part of the union's commitment to promote high standards in media and journalism we are also active members of the National Council for the Training of Journalists, Broadcast Journalism Training Council and Skillset, the sector skills organisation for the broadcasting industry.
International
Internationally the NUJ is affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists which brings together more than 500,000 journalists worldwide to promote media freedom, ethical standards in media and lobbies at the European Union, United Nations and other international bodies for the rights of journalists and media plurality. The NUJ is also an active member of the European Federation of Journalists which lobbies on copyright, labour rights and other key issues affecting journalists across Europe.
Across the world journalists are all too often persecuted for their work and basic media freedoms are denied. We work with NGO partners to help highlight abuses of media freedom. The NUJ is an active affiliate of organisations such as Amnesty International, the International News Safety Institute, the Stop the War Coalition and other organisations in which we seek to raise those issues which affect our members both as journalists and citizens.
Trade Unionists in many countries also face a denial of the basic freedoms of association. As a union committed to social justice we work with organisations such as War on Want and Justice for Colombia to highlight the abuse of basic human rights wherever they happen.
From time to time the NUJ will work with a broad range of other organisations to promote the objectives of the union set out in Rule 1 of the union's rule book. Affiliation to campaigns which promote the principles of press freedom and workers rights is democratically decided on by delegates at the union's annual conference. Affiliation to all other organisations and campaigns is subject to a ballot of the NUJ's membership.
