Comments on: Subscriptions set to rise, NUJ warns members http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/briefs/subscriptions-set-to-rise-nuj-warns-members/ The home of UK regional journalism news and jobs Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Youett http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/briefs/subscriptions-set-to-rise-nuj-warns-members/#comment-21067 Chris Youett Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:37:02 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1629435#comment-21067 To hit the £450K savings target, the NUJ needs to recruit another 2K members. That is what the leadership should be concentrating on, not playing the numbers game. The NUJ can live within its means if the leadership acknowledge that the union is being burued under paper & committees that (at best) only duplicate what the over-worked staff are doing. Getting rid of industrial councils would save £250K - which is preferrable to putting up subs. Even a 5% rise is unlikely to raise more than 2% more income. To hit the £450K savings target, the NUJ needs to recruit another 2K members. That is what the leadership should be concentrating on, not playing the numbers game. The NUJ can live within its means if the leadership acknowledge that the union is being burued under paper & committees that (at best) only duplicate what the over-worked staff are doing.

Getting rid of industrial councils would save £250K – which is preferrable to putting up subs. Even a 5% rise is unlikely to raise more than 2% more income.

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]]> By: Traffic Chaos http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/briefs/subscriptions-set-to-rise-nuj-warns-members/#comment-20895 Traffic Chaos Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:36:52 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1629435#comment-20895 Regional journalists of the nation: why waste a substantial chunk of your tiny pay packets on a representative body which has stood powerless as the entire industry has been cut in half and brought to its knees? I'm all for union movements but ours is totally ineffectual. Might as well get out. Regional journalists of the nation: why waste a substantial chunk of your tiny pay packets on a representative body which has stood powerless as the entire industry has been cut in half and brought to its knees?

I’m all for union movements but ours is totally ineffectual. Might as well get out.

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]]> By: onlooker http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/briefs/subscriptions-set-to-rise-nuj-warns-members/#comment-20794 onlooker Wed, 30 May 2012 14:58:13 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1629435#comment-20794 That reminds me, must cancel membership - when being made redundant, greeted with indifference at head office level, and the chap who I initially liaised with, when I rang him a second time, got ansaphone message: "I am now on holiday for a fortnight...." That reminds me, must cancel membership – when being made redundant, greeted with indifference at head office level, and the chap who I initially liaised with, when I rang him a second time, got ansaphone message: “I am now on holiday for a fortnight….”

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]]> By: Freddie http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/briefs/subscriptions-set-to-rise-nuj-warns-members/#comment-20735 Freddie Wed, 30 May 2012 09:30:53 +0000 http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/?p=1629435#comment-20735 If the NUJ was a newspaper group, the NUJ would be telling the NUJ that cutting staff is never the answer, investment in people is the key, blah, blah, blah, it's a disgrace, the people in charge should be accountable, the fat cats should pay withe their jobs. The NUJ, in my view, is paying the price for years of failure to come up with constructive ideas for the future of the industry ... instead, they just wanted management heads to roll and staff to go on strike. Had they acted differently, they might have had more members. If the NUJ was a newspaper group, the NUJ would be telling the NUJ that cutting staff is never the answer, investment in people is the key, blah, blah, blah, it’s a disgrace, the people in charge should be accountable, the fat cats should pay withe their jobs. The NUJ, in my view, is paying the price for years of failure to come up with constructive ideas for the future of the industry … instead, they just wanted management heads to roll and staff to go on strike. Had they acted differently, they might have had more members.

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