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30th June 2015

News Shopper Journalists Join Newsquest Strikes

Newsquest's South London journalists have been joined on their strike over pay by News Shopper journalists.


Newsquest journalists in South London have been striking over pay and staff redundancies, following a plan to put 16 weekly newspapers under one single managing editor.

The strike is due to last 12 days, with journalists in Sutton planning to strike after 14 editorial positions alone were put at risk of redundancy.

These Newsquest journalists have now been joined by News Shopper staff.

A News Shopper NUJ spokesperson said, "If management were trying to scare us, then it has backfired. We are even more determined to take action. The fact that we have to go on strike to get a London Living Wage for some of our colleagues and an office to work in is incredible."

The National Union of Journalists is calling for a 3% salaried pay increase, as well as the reorganisation of already affected South London titles.

The strike is supported by the News Guild-CWA in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. They issued the following statement:

"What these journalists are fighting for, we are all fighting for. Our members face exactly this kind of greed and arrogance from Gannett and other corporate media owners. They reward top executives with fat salaries and bonuses but plead poverty when it comes to raises for employees, even though they are working harder than ever.

“In the strongest possible terms, the Guild calls upon Newsquest/Gannett to show its employees the respect they deserve by paying them fair wages, maintaining adequate staffing levels, ending the constant cycle of cuts and reinvesting in its news products.

“The company fails to understand that the disrespect they are showing to their workers is disrespect to their readers, their customers. You simply cannot keep doing more, or even the same amount of work, or the same quality of work, with eviscerated staffs whose remaining workers are  exhausted, stressed and fearful that their job will be the next one to go.”
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