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THE IRISH JOURNALIST


Newsletter of the National Union of Journalists in Ireland December 2017 SNAP! LIFETIME IN PHOTOGRAPHY IN FOCUS


Freelance photographer Barbara Lindberg turns the tables on Dublin photographers Liam O’Connor (front), Matt Kavanagh and Ray Cullen after they received Life Membership certificates in the Gresham Hotel on the eve of the NUJ Biennial Delegate Conference. Photo: Maxwell Photography.


Time to end pay gap


The need to tackle the gender pay gap was the dominant theme of a seminar held in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin last month as part of the union’s Biennial


Delegate Conference. The all-female panel was united in support of


demands for ending discrimination in the workplace. General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet detailed the union’s campaign to tackle pay discrimination


and gender based harassment while newly appointed SIPTU Deputy General Secretary Ethel Buckley emphasised the vital role of unions in stamping out inequality. The gender pay gap is narrower in countries


where trade unions are strongest, she said, pointing out that Ireland ranks 11th of all the countries in in the European Union when it comes to equal pay.


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