Newspapers, News Agencies employees to demonstrate on May 8

An apex organisation of newspapers and news agencies employees today decided to hold country-wide demonstrations on May eight against the "inordinate delay" in the implementation of the Majithia Wageboard award for journalists and non-journalists.
At an emergency meeting of the Confederation of Newspapers and News Agencies Employees of Organisation (CNNAEO) held here, it was decided unanimously that the workers of the newspaper industries and news agencies would hold a demonstration in the press area at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg and march to Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence on May 16 in the forenoon.
CNNEAO General Secretary M S Yadav said there was resentment among thousands of journalists and non-journalists with the non-implementation of the Wageboards even though there was no stay by the apex court where the managements of the newspapers have challenged the wageboards award.

Earlier, senior advocate of the Supreme Court Colin Gonsalves, representing the CNNAEO, briefed the Confederation members about the court procedures regarding the case and said "this is an historic case" for which the date of next hearing has been listed for July nine.
Among those who attended the meeting included N K Tirkha and Rajendra Prabhu of National Union of Journalists (I), Madan Talwar and Madan Singh of All India Newspapers Employees Federations, C K Naidu of Indian Express, Suresh Akhouri and Madan Singh (IJU), S K Pandey (DUJ), Pramanand Pandey of IFWJ M L Joshi (UNI) and Rajbir Singh and K S Shankar of PTI Workers Unions.