Pay Freeze At Trinity Mirror

EDM number 2544 in 2007-08, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 20/11/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Pay and Press.

That this House notes with concern the announcement of Trinity Mirror, the national and regional news publisher, of a freeze on staff pay over the next year; further notes that Trinity Mirror has already cut 1,200 jobs and closed 44 titles in the last year; believes that news provision, at national, regional and local level, is integral to the UK's communities and that journalists should be paid a fair wage for their work; further believes that pay freezes and cutbacks will undermine Trinity Mirror's capacity to provide high quality journalism; and therefore urges Trinity Mirror to re-consider this pay freeze and enter into meaningful negotiations with the NUJ, representing journalists working for the company, in order to resolve the problems the company is facing.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.