Trade Union Rights In The Newspaper Industry

EDM number 475 in 1991-92, proposed by Peter Hardy on 14/01/1992.

That this House deplores the growing practice among newspaper proprietors of introducing individual contracts in place of the traditional trade union negotations on pay rates; and therefore expresses its full support for members of the National Union of Journalists employed on the Rotherham and South Yorkshire Advertiser and the Rotherham Record who have taken strike action in defence of their basic right to be represented by their union in pay negotiations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.