Campaigns
The industry has never needed an active and strong union as much as it does now. Designed to provide support to chapel representatives and individual members the site will improve communications from the NUJ Scottish office to members, campaign on day to day issues, promote training and will host a secure forum for F/MoCs and officials.
News and campaign pages will provide advice and inspire members to work within the union to fight for quality journalism, decent pay and health and safety, host messages of support from our political supporters and other unions.
Employers who shaft our members will be exposed and bosses who are as vindictive as they are incompetent will be exposed. However the NUJ will also engage with progressive people who are interested in promoting and advancing the future of journalism.
Protecting good journalists means protecting good journalism and this site will be driven with that aim.
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The NUJ is continuing its recruitment campaign at D C Thomson with a
strategically parked ad-trailer parked in front of the D C Thomson
offices in Dundee city centre and outside the staff car park at
Kingsway, Dundee with the union's message displayed loud and clear. More
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The Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee published its report on the Scottish local newspaper industry this morning. The report can be accessed here
NUJ MEMBER FACING DEPORTATION - your help urgently needed
NUJ DUNDEE CAMPAIGN - FIGHT THE D C THOMSON CUTS
- NUJ Scotland are launching a series of campaigns to boost the media freelance sector.
- Improving freelance skills. A cross industry conference is planned for May targeting new training initiatives for freelance members, involving Skillset and Skills Development Scotland with funding from the STUC development fund.
- Watch out for new free-of-charge courses aimed at improving technological and marketing skills for freelances.
- Kick the amateurs into touch! This campaign will target sports desks who regularly hire teachers, policemen and other non-journalists to report on sports events across Scotland.
- When freelances are losing work because of cut-backs and staff journalists are being made redundant it is a scandal that sports editors are using their own version of "fans with lap-tops" without the journalistic skills and traditions that help maintain standards and ethics in the industry.
- The union is writing to sports editors, the SPL and Scottish League for support as well as the Sports Ministers in Holyrood and Westminster to help us reclaim ground for the professional writers and photographers.
- Regular freelances who are still fortunate to hang onto their work are fed up sitting beside this gang of "citizen journalists" who are queering our pitch. They are concerned at falling standards and rates of shift payments driven down by cheap labour.
- Coming soon! New legal support for freelance members in Scotland. A service providing small claims representation for members who are being ripped off by non-paying publishers and through breaches of copyright.