DUJ Asks For Wage Board, Media Commission

THE Delhi Union Of Journalists (DUJ) has urged the union cabinet to help ensure a wage board for the newspaper industry, relieve journalists from the bondage of contracts and stagnation, and regularise working conditions in the entire industry from the print to the electronic broadcast.

At an emergency, extended meeting on the budget eve on July 7, the DUJ executive committee welcomed the growing unity between press workers and journalists, and asked for a media commission on the lines of the first and second press commissions. According to a joint press note issued by DUJ president S K Pande and general secretary Javed Faridi, the meeting further opined that the outdated Working Journalists Act must be amended to ensure checks on arbitrary hire and fire.

The DUJ has resolved to observe a wage board day towards the end of this month and letters have already been sent to the prime minister and members of parliament to apprise them of the DUJ’s viewpoint. Letters of solidarity were being received from a variety of trade unions. (INN)