Guardian owners derecognise union

The National Union of Journalists is asking trade unionists to boycott Guardian Media's daily titles - the Guardian, Manchester Evening News, and Reading Evening Post - on days when NUJ members on the company's weeklies in the North-West are striking against union derecognition.
The next strike is due to run from 30 April to 8 May.

Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th April were the second in a series of strikes by journalists at Greater Manchester Weekly Newspapers (North) who earn between £10,500 and £17,000.
The maximum wage for anyone below the rank of deputy editor is about the same as a McDonalds trainee manager on their first day in work.
On the day the NUJ announced a 100 percent vote for a strike in a secret ballot the company responded by de-recognising the union. Despite the liberal pretensions of the Guardian group the firm are refusing to talk to the union unless industrial action is suspended.
The union members urgently need money to sustain the action. Please urge your union branch to hold a meeting and agree to make a donation to the strike fund. Organise a whip round. Cheques should be made payable to "GMWN NUJ Fund" and sent to 22 Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JQ. Individual donations are also welcome however small.
Please email letters to Guardian writer Hugo Young at hugoyoung@compuserve.com and/or Guardian editor alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk. They are both NUJ members and on the board of the Trust which runs the company. Send messages of support and congratulation to the chapel at badlypaid@hotmail.com.
On May 1 strikers are planning a protest outside the Guardian's main office on Farringdon Road in London from 9am. The main TUC-backed London May Day event starts at noon. Participants are being asked to meet at Farringdon tube which is just down the road from the Guardian. The strikers are asking protestors to visit the Guardian demo before going on to the main event.
Visit www.nuj.org.uk or the chapel's website at http://badlypaid.tripod.com/gmwn/index.html. Contact Sue Orton or NUJ northern regional organiser Miles Barter in the NUJ Manchester office by phone on 0161 834 0240, by fax on 0161 832 8196, by email on nujmanchester@nuj.org.uk, or by post at 22, Swan Street, M4 5JQ, or on Miles Barter's mobile, 07764 614203.