Dossier 1 - 1989 NUJ pay claim and agreement

1 file

Correspondence, notes of meetings and draft papers relating to negotiations for, and the implementation of, the Guardian Newspapers Limited (GNL) and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) 1989 house agreement, December 1988 - November 1989.

Includes: letters from Ken Dodd to the Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times and Press Association requesting information on their pay claims, December 1988; correspondence between Ken Dodd, Jim Markwick and Lovell, White and Durrant concerning legal advice for the Guardian NUJ pay claim, January 1989; report and accounts for the Guardian and Manchester Evening News, 1989; lists of updated staff salaries, May 1989; direct input agreement, nd; draft list of proposed house agreement changes for 1989; annotated summary of the Guardian responses to Lord McCarthy's mediation of differences between the Guardian and NUJ at ACAS, May 1989; memorandums from Peter Preston to Guardian staff announcing the settlement of the NUJ pay claim, June 1989; Reuters journalists' salary survey, October 1989; correspondence between Ken Dodd and Seumas Milne concerning the interpretation of the 1989 agreement, October 1989 and a newspaper cutting concerning an 10% increase in freelance rates at the BBC, November 1989.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Kenneth Dodd

Records relating to individual staff are access restricted in line with the Data Protection Act and confidentiality.