Unions Vote for 'Conscience Clause' to Cover Journalists

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By: Hélène Mulholland | Guardian.co.uk

Unions have unanimously voted for journalists to be covered by a legally-binding "conscience clause", following the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.

Michelle Stanistreet, the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), made the call for a law to protect journalists who are put under pressure to take part in unethical media practices, during a wide-ranging debate on the threat to trade union rights in the workplace, at the TUC conference in London.































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