Congress Race Hots Up: The ZUJ We Want

Comrades and friends, 

As we approach the ZUJ congress, as your secretary general-in-waiting, I promise to ensure that all union members are given access to equal opportunities. I also want to ensure that the union is run in a membership driven process.

The union is bigger than an individual and I would want to reiterate that we shall demand a one-man-one vote at the congress.

I also want to ensure that all those who illegally possess properties of the union are held to account.

 I would like to ensure that ZUJ rejoins the family of progressive media organizations other than isolating itself.

I want to prioritize the issue of legal representation of journalists instead of giving the burden to media organizations that do not deal directly with journalists.

I want to ensure that training programs are inclusive and ensure that the secretariat is run in a professional manner.

I want to engage employers so that royalties are paid to photojournalists for repeated use of their images. In this vein, I also want to engage employers so that that full-time and freelance reporters are paid in line with market standards.

I also want to ensure that journalists have unlimited access to the union's resource center at the headquarters. I would want to set up resource centers in all the country's provinces so that journalists can do their work with little or no problems at all.

As the world is changing very fast, your secretary general will ensure that ZUJ is twinned with other unions in developed countries. Under your secretary general's leadership, the rebranded ZUJ will seek to create partnerships that other media organizations, locally and internationally, that seek to promote media freedom and advance the interests of journalists. 

Vote Frank Chikowore for Secretary General