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September 28, 2010

NUJ demands pay rise of up to 8% at Newsquest

By Alexandra Zeevalkink

The National Union of Journalists is demanding that Newsquest ends its pay freeze by increasing the wage it provides its employees by five to eight per cent.

The union submitted its pay claim to management at the regional newspaper publisher yesterday after claiming journalists working for the company had worked more than a thousand days without a pay increase.

Newsquest, which is the UK’s second biggest regional publisher, is the only one which still has a pay freeze in place, the union said.

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