more dodgyness from the liberal press

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday April 17, 2002 20:56 by a concerned reader

uk indymedia story NUJ members at the Guardian Media-owned Greater Manchester Weekly Newspapers are to strike Tuesday and Wednesday over low pay and union recognition.

NUJ members at the Guardian Media-owned Greater Manchester Weekly Newspapers
(North) are to strike for the next two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) over low
pay and union recognition.

So don't buy it for a couple of days!

...On the current pay scales trainee journalists at the company start on as
little as £10,486 per annum. The maximum anyone below the rank of deputy
editor can earn is £17,692.
...According to a story published last month in the Guardian, road sweepers
in Cambridge earn £15,500 while park rangers in Bolton are on £17,000. The
Greater Manchester Weekly journalists asked for a 7.5 percent rise to help
catch up with other industries. Management offered 2.5 percent.
...In the year to April 1 2001 Greater Manchester Newspapers - the division
of Guardian Media involved - made an after tax profit of £12.4 million.
...The company have now offered some particularly low paid journalists rises
of more than 10 percent.

NOT SO LIBERAL... http://uk.indymedia.org/