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This file contains records relating to negotiations with the Observer chapels of various trade unions, including:

• Correspondence, notes, minutes and memos of negotiations between The Observer and National Graphical Association (NGA), the National Society of Operative Printers and Media Personnel (NATSOPA), the Electrical, Electronic Telecommunications and Plumbing union (EEPTU) and the Amalgamated union of engineering workers (AUEW) regarding: staffing levels, pagination payments, working hours, sick pay, dispute and grievance procedures, pensions, holiday and overtime.

• Several drafts of working agreements for Trade Unions approval (1974).
  Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison

Records relating to the negotation of agreements between the Observer chapel of the NUJ and the newspaper's management. Key correspondents include: Roger Harrison, Tristan Jones, KP Obank, Clive Bradley and & representatives of the Observer NUJ chapel.

• File 1 (1973-1974 but with copies of documents from 1963-1973) contains records chiefly relating to non-regular agreements for artists and photographers, relating particularly to holiday pay, and the Sunday paper rate for freelancers (1974) and negotiation of the 1974-5 Observer Saturday agreement (includes unsigned, annotated copies of the agreement).

Includes annotated extracts from the NPA handbook on both subjects; earlier contracts for photographers: Jane Bown (unsigned drafts 1964-67); Anthony McGrath (signed photocopy, April 1968) and David Newell-Smith (unsigned, July 1968) and correspondence relating to other photographers and artists, including: Chris Smith, Tony Huggett, David Ace and John Butterworth.

• File 2 (1974-1975) Includes multiple annotated NUJ and Observer drafts of the 1973-4 house agreement, a signed photocopy of the final agreement and correspondence relating to four day week discussions, unqualified journalists and the use of reporters' photographs in the paper. Also includes a signed photocopy of the 1972-3 agreement.

• File 3 (1974-1978) contains copies (non-original) of the following agreements for the following years:

Observer Saturday agreement:1974-5 (photocopy); 1975 (unsigned draft for for period April - Dec); 1976-77 (unsigned draft); 1977-78 (signed copy and unsigned draft);
Observer Freelance agreement: 1977-78 (signed copy and unsigned draft);
Observer House agreement: 1974-5 (photocopy); 1975 (unsigned draft for for period April - Dec); 1976-77 (unsigned drafts);1977-78 (signed copy and unsigned draft);

Also includes correspondence relating to the release of 1973 accounts to the chapel; the proposed deferral of negotiations in line with national NUJ negotiations; a memo on outside work; a bid to backdate the April 1975 pay award and an annotated copy of a national NUJ claim for the revison of NPA staff agreement (1976).
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison