HR Issues

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the actions of the Associated Press (AP) over its the dismissal of unionised editorial staff at its Mexico City bureau where workers have been coerced to sign agreements disowning attachment to their trade union. The IFJ Executive Committee, meeting in Sydney, Australia, from December 2-3rd 2005, expressed concern at reports from AP...

The NUJ Pay In The Media Summit this weekend made huge strides towards a sector-wide approach to building on important gains already made and uniting to drive pay up across the entire industry for the future. Union activists came from all over the country and every media sector to share experience and plan a strategy for an effective pay battle in the coming year. In his opening speech, NUJ...

More than 60 former journalists of the Knight Ridder group have volunteered to nominate candidates for the Knight Ridder board to reassert John Knight’s creed. In a widely-circulated "Open Letter from Knight Ridder Alumni", they said they would not remain silent anymore, and would support and counsel only corporate leadership that restores to Knight Ridder newspapers the resources to do excellent...

Ten communications unions representing a million workers are banding together to provide a united front in the face of "rapid media consolidation and massive technological shifts." That will include organizing, collective bargaining, and pushing for public policy. And in a separate move, one of those guilds, the Writers Guild of America East, joined with its West Coast counterpart Thursday to mend...

Finally it is here. After almost every sector has witnessed a boom, it is finally boom time for the print media as well. With Mumbai at the receiving end of three brand new newspapers and a general upbteat mood in the industry, it’s raining jobs for media professionals. The joke doing rounds in media circles is that newspaper offices may soon put up a sign on their doors ? ?Trespassers will be...

Newspaper and news agency employees from various parts of the country on Tuesday marched to Parliament demanding a new wage board and a ban on FDI in the print media. The employees, under the banner of Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Employees Organisations, marched carrying banners and placards and shouting slogans. They were stopped at the Parliament Street Police Station. Leaders of...

WASHINGTON – The number of full-time journalists working at daily newspapers continues to fall while the number of minority journalists inched up nearly a half of a percentage point to 13.42 percent in 2004. Since the economic downturn of 2001, newsrooms have lost a net of more than 2,200 journalists while the number of minority journalists has increased. These are among the key findings from the...

A union representing US employees of Reuters Group Plc is mounting a legal challenge against outsourcing of many of their editorial jobs to Bangalore in India. An independent arbitrator will hear the Newspaper Guild of New York's charge that offshoring US-based editorial jobs violates its contract with Reuters. The arbitrator's decision will be legally binding. The case could take months to...

The International Federation of Journalists condemns the termination of services of 362 permanent employees of the Hindustan Times in Delhi and supports the Hindustan Times Employees Union struggle for the withdrawal of the arbitrary and illegal dismissal order of 3 October 2004. The IFJ takes a dim view of the employer´s tactics in justifying the termination of services on grounds of change in...

The K.K. Birla-promoted Hindustan Times has terminated the services of 362 printing press workers. The workers, who were given the marching orders on October 3, have moved the Delhi High Court against the decision. Hindustan Times has paid a compensation of nearly Rs 7 crore to these workers, according to a company official. The workers had been resisting their transfer from Hindustan Times Ltd to...