NUJ rejects proposal on pay increase

MEMBERS of the National Union of Journalists working at the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo are to vote on taking industrial action after rejecting a proposed pay increase recommended by the Labour Court.

Journalists at the company’s Cork and Dublin offices voted by four-to-one to reject the pay and pensions proposal which had been recommended by the court.

The mandatory union meetings on the pay issue were attended by 74 of the 120 plus NUJ members working on the two newspapers.