Modernising Journalists’ Trade Unions in Pakistan for the Digital Age A Mapping of Challenges, Needs, and Solutions Rating the Performance of Unions for Core Functions: Defense of journalists/media workers’ rights in courts Many respondents(79) said that in terms of defending journalists/media workers’ rights the unions are often compliant but could be better, 52 of the journalist respondents replied that there was tokenistic compliance while 43 said that unions are totally non-compliant in defending journalists in the courts. The remaining 41 respondents said in terms of defending journalists’ rights the unions are fully compliant while 35 said they were compliant to a large degree. Figure 17: Defense of Journalists/Media workers’ Rights in Courts 79 52 43 41 35 Often compliant but could be better Tokenistic compliance Totally non­complaint Fully complaint Compliant to large degree Rating the Performance of Unions for Core Functions: Welfare of journalists/media workers Many of the journalist respondents(73) replied that in terms of ensuring welfare of journalists/media workers the unions are often compliant but could be better, 56 said they were fully compliant while 45 replied that they were tokenistic in terms of compliance. The remaining 44 respondents said that ensuring the welfare of media workers the unions are totally non­compliant while 32 said they were compliant to a large degree. 32