DM2021: Elections
Elections have been held for the union's officers and committees.
DM2021: Membership
New category of membership for “students”. Chapels to approve membership. Report on a new freelance category.
NUJ to publish protocol with private security workers
The union is working with the International Professional Security Association (IPSA) to launch guidance and a campaign to increase understanding between journalists and private security officers.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2021
The NUJ Disabled Members’ Council and Health and Safety Committee have raised concerns about the increase in reports of members experiencing mental distress at work.
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.
