Thursday morning headed to New Scotland Yard to meet senior police officers about our photo event on 16 February highlighting the introduction of new laws making it unlawful to photograph police buildings or officers. Then on to City Hall to meet Guto Hari, Boris Johnson's press head honcho to talk about ways the Mayor can promote quality journalism in London - the day the front page of the Evening Standard is dominated by Boris' alleged 'f-word tirade'. We've also written to the London Assembly urging them to take action to protect quality and diversity in London's media as more local titles are merged, offices closed and jobs cut. A full staff meeting at Headland House rounded off the day.
Friday morning I met with Morning Star Chapel officers about their dispute, sent the formal industrial action notice to the company, produced a newsletter for Johnston Press reps, met with representatives of the Journalist Editorial Advisory Board and had conversations with both the TUC and Unite about union recognition at Pearson Education (Oxford). The afternoon was dominated by a meeting with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and senior finance and editorial managers - during which they announced their plans for a pay freeze for all staff - we've not accepted the need for the freeze, instead asking them key questions about the company's finances. Further information-gathering meetings will take place before pay negotiations next month.
Spent several hours trying to deal with all the outstanding emails, correspondence, phone calls etc before heading home to prepare for my holiday...see you in three weeks!
3 comments:
it makes m e wonder if this new law was brought in to save the incrimination of th officers responsible in queens Gardens Polie station Hull of disgusting behaviour and cover u after my brother Christopher alder died on their custody suite floor My name is Janet Alder i have been fighting for nearly 11 years for justice for my brother an ex paratrooper his death captured on CCTV footage. The whoe sysytem has covered up the fact those officers responsible for arresting him from the hospital in Hull after a head injury of fwhich he was a complainant in an assault proceeding to take him away in the back of a police van and beat him while hadcuffed behind his back thaere is new evidence on the ssctv footage that has not yet been released in any public forum the cctv does not justi incriminate the officers resoponsible fbut high rankindg officers involved in making april fool jokes about his death pretending to be from the local news paper and congratulating others on his death and basically reveals the fact he was beat cs gassed and they were gonna put him in a cell and project him to go to sleep i am in desperate need of help to expose what 4 home secretaries and others would not reveal to the public
Sounds quality, I hope you can do everything you can.
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