The site formerly known as Media Unions

Back in the mists of time when the Web was young (1995) this was the home page of a project by a group of volunteer activists in the National Union of Journalists and the Broadcast Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union to set up a shared Web presence for media unions in the UK and Ireland.

Then in 1997 BECTU figured out what we were on about and got its own site. So until March 2002 this formed the unofficial NUJ site.

It is now the site of London Freelance Branch of the National Union of Journalists, and quite a lot else besides.

This evolution - and the need to keep thousands of people's links and bookmarks working - explains why the site structure may still seem a bit twisty. We're working on it.
 
[BECTU]   The Broadcast Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) representing production and technical workers in all kinds of broadcast and entertainments.
[Resources]   The media resources list: an odd selection of online references worldwide: list of lists, plus
newspapers
broadcasting
political & governmental
Union yes!   Union and labour movement links to organisations representing creators in the UK, Ireland and more...
Media Unions
   Older pages on the site include a link back to the home page using this logo.
 

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Probably the best trade union branch site in the world

Tim Gopsill editor, the Journalist

Almost certainly the largest - my brain hurts

Mike Holderness editor/webcreature, the Freelance

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The NUJ is the world's largest journalists' union, with over 25 000 40,000 members in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It is affiliated to the TUC, and the GFTU in the UK. The NUJ is proud to be a part of the international labour movement and is affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists.

 
The above text is lovingly preserved from the very first version of this page. The NUJ now also has active Branches in Paris, Brussels and the Netherlands.

First posted: 25 October 1995; Last modified: 21 June 2006
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