Labour Research September 2011

Fight for quality journalism - General secretary of the NUJ journalists' union Michelle Stanistreet draws the battle lines in the wake of media exposés of Murdoch's empire; Unemployment on the up - Coalition government hopes of private sector jobs growth cutting unemployment are fading as joblessness rises; Far-right marginalised - Changes to union rulebooks to exclude the far-right and its sympathisers are revealed in the 2011 TUC Equality Audit; Community engagement - There has been a shift in unions' approach to building local alliances