Levels of Collective Bargaining There are basically four levels workers and employers can carry out negotiations and agreements. The first is at the enterprise or company level. This however is uncommon because with the advent of industry-based unionism, bargaining is often done at the industrial level. The second is at industry level; these are industry-wide negotiations and agreements. However, some pragmatism comes into play here; in some industries such as the banks, insurance and financial institutions, room is given for the insurance arm which may not be as viable or profitable as the bank arm to pay less. In the media, a minimum can be set such that the big ones like the Vanguard, the Punch, the Nation and the Guardian can pay more. The mass media is an industry but it has the challenge that it does not have a central employer or employer association. The print media has its Newspapers Proprietors Association(NPAN) while the electronic media has the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria(BON). But the sorry state of the Nigerian journalist is not as a result of this; rather, it is due largely to the general ill health of the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) for over two decades. The third is bargaining at the state level. This may be controversial since labour is on the exclusive list. However, in practice, state governments and their employees sometimes bargain wages and allowances which might be lower than that at the Federal level. For instance, while it is agreed by the Federal Government, Labour and employers that a new Minimum Wage bill of N18, 000 is to be sent to the National Assembly, the Jigawa State government has increased wages in the state by 53 percent. Then there is the national negotiation and agreement like the National Minimum Wage which has nationwide applicability across sectors and industry. Core Media Issues in Collective Bargaining There are core media issues which collective bargaining in the industry should take into consideration. Some of these had been highlighted in a 1987 Basic Condition of Service for Journalists document which an NUJ national committee chaired by Ladi Lawal with me as secretary had produced. They are also contained in the Standard Conditions of Service for Journalists, which a committee of the national NUJ I was privileged to chair in 2007, produced. This document drew heavily from the union constitution, our Code of Ethics and a model West African Standard. I will rely on the 2007 in this paper.