Sunday, 25 January 2009
A dispute has arisen within the Morning Star between the management and the NUJ chapel (the journalists' union branch at the paper).
A press release from the Chapel was published on the NUJ website on Thursday, January 22, which states:
'Morning Star journalists could be walking off the job next month in the first ever pay strike at Britain’s "daily paper of the left". Sub-editors and reporters at the title are balloting for industrial action after bosses at the newspaper tore up a commitment to try to close the pay gap with other national journalists, despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in new investment'.
The statement goes on to quote local NUJ rep, Steve Mather, who points out that the Morning Star’s journalists had 'proved their commitment to the paper time and time again'. He says: 'Every year we are told that we are a "special case" – that the Morning Star does not make enough money to bring our wages up to the level of other journalists doing similar work'.
Communists gathered to support the call of the global anti war movement to demonstrate the worlds anger at the completely unjustified and disproportionate attacks by Israel. Thousands turned out in Birmingham on Saturday 17th January 2009 when communists distributed leaflets and sold Morning Stars and party material. 
