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- March 1989 - February 1990 (Creation)
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Records relating to negotiations for, and the implementation of the GNL and NUJ house agreement for 1989, March 1989 - February 1990.
Includes correspondence between Seumas Milne (father of the chapel, London), Peter Preston (editor) and Ian Wright (managing editor) concerning negotiations for a new house agreement and proceedings at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), March - April 1989; a 'summary of the Guardian responses to the 15 points of Lord McCarthy's mediation of differences between the Guardian and the National Union of Journalists at ACAS', nd, [May 1989]; drafts of new clauses to take account of the points raised by the mediator, nd, [May 1989]; GNL and NUJ house and technology agreement operative from 1 January 1989; notes and lists of amended staff salaries and contracts, June - July 1989; a list of chapel committee motions for a mandatory chapel meeting on 28 September 1989, includes motions concerning private health insurance and profit sharing, de-casualisation and the subbing pool, the messengers' dispute, freelance agreement, four-day week and Rupert Murdoch and the Bedtime Guardian, September 1989 and correspondence between Peter Preston, Jim Markwick (managing editor, GNL) and Seumas Milne concerning ACAS mediation, February 1990.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)
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Records relating to individual staff are access restricted in line with the Data Protection Act.
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- Preston; Peter John (1938-2018); journalist and editor of the Guardian (Subject)
- National Union of Journalists (1907-); trade union (Subject)
- Markwick; James Charles; chief executive, Guardian Media Group (Subject)
- Milne; Seumas; journalist and writer (Subject)
- Wright; Ian (1934-2016); journalist and managing editor of the Guardian (Subject)
- Murdoch; Keith Rupert (1931-); publisher (Subject)
- McCarthy; Lord; William Edward John (1925-); politician and academic (Subject)
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (1896-); independent employment relations body (Subject)