Guardian bans trade union
Guardian Media – a company originally founded to promote liberal values – has banned the broadcasting union BECTU from the offices of its Manchester TV station Channel M.
BECTU and the National Union of Journalists had called a joint meeting for workers on the channel.
Bosses astonished staff by stopping the event from happening on the premises because, they said, they don’t recognise the broadcasting union.
The Guardian was set up in Manchester as a radical newspaper.
It moved its main editorial office to London to conform with the establishment.
Now the London operation is at the heart of the lentil-eating liberal crowd.
While in Manchester Guardian Media bosses behave like a Bradley Hardacre tribute act.
In 2002 northern managers derecognised the NUJ on Greater Manchester Weekly Newspapers (North) after the lowly paid workers dared to ballot for industrial action.
And one of their papers – the Accrington Observer – recently launched a Hyndburn Honeys feature to promote a 1950s stereotype of women.
posted by Action @ 14:08
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Spot on. I wonder if the top people in London actually know what happens at grassroots level.
Surely they cannot only be interested in the money? The Guardian?
They surely are.
It seems that what they say and what they do are entirely different matters.
Good luck to BECTU members.
any plans afoot for a demo or whatever?
Let's disabuse ourselves of the fiction that the Guardian media group is any less rampantly anti-union than the rest of the media industry.
The Observer recently carried a lengthy feature on unions in the media without a single quote from any representative of Bectu, the NUJ or any other union.
The Manchester bosses are even more red in tooth and claw than their Islington colleagues who pretend to have a pink hue.
Until we wrest control of our newspapers, radio stations, TV companies and news websites from multinational one-trick ponies whose only modus operandi is to boost profit by cutting staff, we're going to be stuck with this apology for news media.
Neil, sadly the London bosses will know only too well what's happening in Manchester. History counts for nothing in the boardroom of the Scott Trust or any other media conglomerate.
The bottom line is the only thing that matters.
1950s Miles? So they're actually dragging East Lancs forward a decade?
Channel M is toss. GMG have wasted £15M on a Granada lite. It is not a community station. They won the franchise under false pretences.
When they cut City Life I wrote to the Scott Trustees. They simply said in reply that it was the regional papers and that they didn't interfere.
It is worth looking at the mission statements etc for Scott as their practical activities fly in the face of these principles.
Spot on Grough.
As always.
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