Rule 1 #

The name of the organization is Indian Journalists Union. Registered office: F 29, Shankar Market, Connaught Circus, New Delhi - 110001.

Objects

Rule 2 #

The objects of the Union are:

a) To raise the status of members of the profession of journalism;
b) To promote a spirit of cooperation and understanding among working journalists;
c) To promote and maintain the heighest standards of professional conduct and integrity;
d) To strive for the betterment of working conditions of journalists, specially salary, tenure office and conditions of service and for prevention of socially unrelated automation;
e) To safeguard and promote their interests generally, and in particular to assist members where necessary in securing employment;
f) To promote amenities for recreation and scope for social and cultural activities;
g) To build up and administer funds for the provision of legal aid, unemployment, retirement and death benefits of an allied nature;
h) To promote wage agreements on a provincial or an all-India basis by the Union acting between the employers and the employees and provide assistance to members of the Union in the event of a trade dispute or when, in the opinion of the Union, they are being dealt with wrong;
i) To secure representation of the Union on national and international organizations and develop friendly contacts with them;
j) To strive for freedom of the Press;
k) To work for and promote legislation for the welfare of working journalists;
l) To secure facility of training of journalists on a country-wide basis and for periodic exchanges of journalists abroad;
m) To publish official journal(s);
n) To conduct the affairs of the Union and its constituent units on professional and trade union lines and to forge organic links with like-minded organizations of newspaper employees;
o) To secure representation off working journalists through their representative organizations on delegations that are sent abroad by the Government of India or any state governments and also on commissions or committees set up by these on which representation of non-officials is desired and which are required to ascertain public opinion or make recommendations on the basis thereof;
p) To affiliate unions of journalists abroad that conform to the rules and the constitution of this Union; and
q) To engage in such other legitimate activities as are incidental or conductive to the attainment of the aforesaid objects.

Head Office

Rule 3 #

The head office of the union shall be in New Delhi. The working office may be located at such other places as may be decided by the Union's National Executive Committee.

Units

Rule 4#

The Indian Journalists Union shall consist of unions as per the list given in the schedule of the constitution of India, subject to such modifications by the national Executive Committee to suit special circumstances.

Membership

Rule 5#

Membership of the Union will be open to:

i. 'Working Journalists' as defined in Section 2 (f) of the Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous) Provision Act, !(%% and the Wage Board Awards, whether employed by Indian or foreign newspapers and news organizations or employed by Indian concerns but working outside India;
ii. Part-time correspondents whose principal avocation is journalism provided, however, that they produce proof in this behalf in terms of statement received from newspapers or news agencies or any other proof of employment; and
iii. Freelance journalists whose principal avocation is journalism.
iv. Proprietors and directors or Managing Editors and other persons having proprietary interest shall not be eligible for membership; provided, however, a proprietor who has no other employee on his editorial staff, shall not be debarred; provided his principal avocation of life is journalism. Members of cooperative concerns of journalists shall be deemed to have proprietary interest except where they are employed mainly in managerial or administrative capacity.

Rule 6#

There shall be three categories of members:

a) Ordinary Member: persons not less than 18 years of age who are qualified under Clause 5 and who have worked as journalists for at least one year.
b) Life Members: members who retire from work on account of age, infirmity or who have done outstanding service to the profession of the organization. A list of member/Register shall be maintained by the Union under the provision of trade Union Act, 1926.
c) Honorary Members: persons who are admitted to membership for their outstanding service to trade union movement in the newspaper industry.