9 IRISH BIENNIAL DELEGATE CONFERENCE 2019 Defending Journalism
in Times of Crisis Biennial Delegate Conference 2019
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2. This BDC calls on the IEC to
campaign for government and EU action to protect the rights and working conditions of those in in the so called “gig economy’ while also protecting those in the traditional sector whose pay and conditions are under attack from competitors availing of low cost technology to disrupt their businesses.
3. This BDC calls on the IEC to
instruct chapels and branches to seek the national minimum wage be paid to interns, as cheap labour is being used to undermine workers’ pay and conditions.
4. This BDC accepts that the very
welcome gains made by the 2017 amendment to the Competition Act have not fed through to any measurable improvement in the conditions of freelance journalists, and instructs branches and chapels to promote the rights of freelances vigorously when negotiating house agreements, and to resists cuts in freelance budgets proposed by employers.
5. This BDC also calls on the IEC
to initiate a debate within the union on priorities in the face of falling membership and the withering away of traditional centres of organisational strength such as the large newspaper chapels. Specifically, it calls for a cost- benefit analysis of the continuation of publication of The Journalist, and a feasibility study on replacing it with a daily online publication with greater reach and relevance to working in present day conditions. In making this call, there is no criticism of what is recognised as a lively and highly professional and lively publication. The question raised is about priorities at a time of stagnant or falling income. (Dublin Freelance)
(5) Murder of Lyra McKee: This Biennial Delegate Conference commends the strong stand taken by the people of Derry, the LGBTQ+ community, trade unions, political parties and others throughout Ireland, Britain and beyond, in condemning the senseless and cowardly murder of Lyra McKee.
We acknowledge the efforts of trades councils, NUJ branches, chapels and committees, local authorities, and activists in sister unions in organising vigils, books of condolence and other initiatives to mark their solidarity with Lyra’s family, and to express the labour movement’s utter rejection of the anti- democratic politics of those seeking a return to the violence of the past. Trade unions have a proud record of standing against violence and sectarianism, and this conference instructs the incoming Irish Executive Council to liaise with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to call action as necessary against sectarian violence and the activities of paramilitary groups.
Conference further instructs the IEC to work
for the establishment and promotion by the NUJ of a charitable fund that will commemorate Lyra McKee’s life and work by providing training, grants or other practical assistance to young journalists. (Belfast and District)
(6) No Stone Unturned: This Biennial Delegate Conference condemns the wrongful arrests of NUJ members Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey as a consequence of their legitimate investigation of state involvement in terrorist atrocities during the Troubles. Conference welcomes the decision by the High Court in Belfast to quash the warrants used to raid the homes and offices of our members, and to return all of the seized material.
In particular, the recognition by the Lord Chief
Justice and his fellow judges of the right of journalists to protect their confidential sources, and of the imperative force in this regard of the NUJ Code of Conduct, constitutes a major advance in official recognition of the importance of a free press to protecting rights and freedoms in a democratic society. Conference salutes Barry McCaffrey, Trevor Birney, their work colleagues, their trade union comrades and all who stood by them in their hour of need
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