PAY FREEZE AT TRINITY MIRROR

Early day motion 2544, tabled 20 November 2008 by Austin Mitchell (Labour). Signed by 17 members.

That this House notes with concern the announcement of Trinity Mirror, the national and regional news publisher, of a freeze on staff pay over the next year; further notes that Trinity Mirror has already cut 1,200 jobs and closed 44 titles in the last year; believes that news provision, at national, regional and local level, is integral to the UK's communities and that journalists should be paid a fair wage for their work; further believes that pay freezes and cutbacks will undermine Trinity Mirror's capacity to provide high quality journalism; and therefore urges Trinity Mirror to re-consider this pay freeze and enter into meaningful negotiations with the NUJ, representing journalists working for the company, in order to resolve the problems the company is facing.

Signatures by party: Labour 13, Independent 2, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1.