NUJ backs the TUC's concerns over end of shielding
Union’s Disabled Members’ Council calls the UK’s government's decision a sick April Fool’s joke.
NUJ Branch March 2021
Latest edition of the newsletter for branches
Six in 10 Covid-19 deaths have been disabled people
Disabled workers have found themselves on the pandemic’s brutal frontline, Frances O’Grady, TUC general secretary, told the Disabled Workers’ Conference.
How gender-based violence is silencing women journalists
Natasha Hirst told the TUC Women’s Conference that female writers are self-censoring or withdrawing from online spaces as a result of the abuse they suffer.
One in three LGBT+ members have been bullied or discriminated at work
Almost one-third (29 per cent) of the NUJ members surveyed during February’s LGBT+ History month and in the run up to the TUC’s LGBT+ conference said they had experienced bullying, harassment, ill-treatment or discrimination at work as a result of their sexuality or gender identity.
Media industry must publish its gender pay gap data this spring
The NUJ has called for the media, publishing and communications industries to prove their commitment to equality by publishing their gender pay gaps this spring, and not the new deadline of October.
NUJ supports photographer arrested for covering protest
The NUJ is legally backing a photographer who was arrested, kept in a cell for seven hours and had journalistic materials confiscated after covering a protest at an asylum centre in Folkestone, Kent last week.
NUJ pays tribute to veteran activist Guy Thornton
Union reps pay tribute to veteran NUJ activist Guy Thornton who has died suddenly
NUJ Branch January 2021
A special newsletter providing information and news for and from branches during the present crisis.
International Day of People with Disabilities
Today is the time to reflect on the lives lost to Covid-19 among disabled people and look at how the trade union movement is supporting disabled workers during the pandemic.
