Today collected 149 delegates, plus staff and guests, to congress in Norwegian Union of Journalists. Meeting will be held for the first time at the old airport at Fornebu, where among other Telenor has its headquarters.
The congress shall adopt new statutes and an action NJ the next two years. Among other expected controversy about changes in the organization’s membership criteria. NJS leader Thomas Spence and Deputy Hege Iren Frantzen re-election at the congress last day, Thursday.
Deficits in two years
Also NJS operation and management of their income, which mainly comes from the roughly 9,000 members dues payments shall under scrutiny at the congress. Revenues are in danger because of the extensive downsizing in the industry. Since the last congress in 2013 has lost NJ 373 members.
The graphic below shows the main figures for NJ since 2007. Put the cursor / finger of each column to view the respective amounts (million). Mobile / board: Use width format.
Journalisten.no looked closely at the details of the financial statements for the last two years. NJS accounts for 2014 show a bottom line level with the result for 2013 – minus 2.0 million. It was budgeted a deficit of just over four million last year. The result was therefore better than expected, despite falling membership numbers.
“The savings due for a good part that we plan and budgeting for greater activity than we are able to implement,” explains NJ leadership in an internal memo.
Money into
In sum had NJ revenues of 49.3 million last year, compared with 48.8 million in 2013.
“During eight-year period, revenues increased by 22 percent, while costs have increased by 31 percent. While we until 2008 had a strerk growth in fee income due to the combination increased wages and increased the number of members, the annual growth from 2009 exclusively tied to wage “the NJ-note.
Membership dues NJS is dominant revenue item. In 2014 paid members into all 46.0 million, which is 880,000 pounds more than last year. Income from opplysning- and Development in Media Businesses’ Association and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation totaled 1.8 million in 2014, while NJ obtain 1.3 million to administer compensation funds from paper, cable and digital copying.
Money out
What has NJ used their revenues to the last two years – a total of 98.2 million dollars? The most important items you see in the graphic below, total 2014 and 2013.
Place the cursor / finger on each circle to see the respective amounts (million).
In sum spent NJ 103.4 million kroner operation biennium, which implies a total operating loss of 5.2 million.
Most of the proceeds go to wage and pension costs NJS management and secretariat, 25.2 million in 2014 and 26.3 million the year before. NJ Leader Thomas Spence was paid 1.13 million dollars in 2014, deputy Hege Iren Frantzen 914.000 million.
NJS central operation , where half are rent, cost respectively 8.2 and 7.8 million in the last two years.
NJS management team, consisting of a chairman, deputy chairman and secretary general, spent 260,000 million for operations and representation in 2014. There are more than 100,000 pounds more than the previous year, due according to General Jahn-Arne Olsen mainly that leader and deputy had a far more extensive travel in 2014 than in 2013. The records were originally budgeted 150,000 euros last year, but was increased to 200.000 million during the revision of the budget in September.
Organization Building includes the operation of political entities congress, National Board, the central committee (AU) and NJS konsernlag. The total cost amounted to 3.7 and 6.2 million in 2014 and 2013 (landsmøteår).
It caused reactions when it last September became known that AU traveled on seminar to Palermo in Sicily for to develop plans for how the organization will save money. AU had a total budget of 270,000 million in 2014, and accounts for last year show that Palermo trip costed NJ 110,000 kroner. AU remained barely within its total budget in 2014.
The operation of local teams charged accounts with 2.4 million the last two years.
Transferred dues Shares is normally a digest of Journalist’s share of NJS dues revenue, dues to the Press Funerals Checkout, Pressens Unemployment Cash and NJS solidarity fund. In recent years, this collective record est significantly – 8.4 million euros last year against 5.4 million years before – as a result of extraordinary support to the journalist. Solidarity Fund has received a total of 904,000 crowns in 2014 and 2013.
NJ During the last two years transferred in total 12.6 million was to journalist. 7.6 million is Journalist ordinary share of membership dues. Each NJ member contributes 418 million a year to the operation of the trade journal. In 2013 and 2014 appropriated NJ extraordinary warranty grants respectively 1.0 and 4.0 million as a result of declining revenues for journalist.
2014 appropriations include costs of severance packages for three employees (2.5 FTEs) totaling 2.4 million.
Included downsizing costs ended up with journalist a loss of 4.5 million last year. Equity at the end of last year was 225,477 crowns. From 1 January journalist admitted as a department in NJ, but will still function as an editorial selvstedig own employees and its own board.
Member Service expenses in the respectively 2 , 9 and 2.5 million in 2014 and 2013. The largest item is payment to members because insurance, with 1.4 million last year.
Professional work cost NJ respectively 1 , 1 million and 833,000 million in the last two years. The item includes expenses for tariff conferences and negotiations.
Compensation Revenue
In addition to operating income NJ significant consideration revenue from paper copying, digital copying and cable distribution of editorial content. In 2014, these revenues amounted to 13.4 million, which was 1.6 million more than budgeted.
11.5 million of compensation funds went out again, in terms of salary, stipend, operation of local branches , journalist professional activities and support to the Department of Journalism. The latter has received 3.0 million from NJS compensation money in each of the last few years.
Uncertain future
NJ calculates that dues revenue from members fall by 1.5 million this year, compared 2014, to 44.5 million. Total members have varied through 2014. As at 31 December 9022 NJ members, a reduction of 122 members from the previous year.
It was then 6861 members who paid ordinary dues, a decrease of 185 (2.6 percent). The number of full-paying members are down in 6836 on 15 February, while NJS approved budget for 2015 assumes an average of 6.650.
During 2014 staff in NJS administration department reduced by one full-time positions and faculty with 0, 3 years.
With help from fiscal revenue increased NJS conflict fund in 2014 with barely 4.0 million and now posted with a holding of 79.1 million.
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