There are sometimes disputes over column ownership and copyright. For instance, when Dele Giwa who wrote the Paralax Snaps in the Sunday Times moved to Sunday Concord, he did so with his column, and when he decided to berth at Newswatch, once again the column moved, taking residence in the magazine. But in many instances, employers stop or attempt to stop such movement. In order to settle this, we have a provision that states“Ownership of authors' right is vested in the journalist. A journalist's moral rights shall include: The right of paternity(signature);- The right of integrity of his work and, the right to authorise any secondary use of his work.” We further stated that“With respect to economic rights, the journalist transfers the right on primary use of his work to the employer. Any secondary use must be authorised by the journalist. A secondary use initiated by the employer or a third party will allow the journalist to receive a remuneration to be decided with the employer” To ensure that professionalism and not politics play the major part in running media houses, the document states that“The journalist shall be consulted on the appointment or removal of the editor...(and)over any requests by the employer or the Editor to change a newspaper's established policies” Challenge of Collective Bargaining in the Media The struggle to ensure a standard service condition for journalists has been on long before this generation. As earlier stated, in 1987 the George Izobo leadership inaugurated a committee to produce a basic Condition of Service for the media. Unfortunately the will to follow through the process was lacking. But some of us in Lagos decided to use it for negotiations with our individual employers, however, in the absence of a collective effort this could not spread. Then there was a self serving campaign that the NUJ should divest itself of its trade union status and retain only the professional garb. This was mainly pushed by senior colleagues who had attained positions of authority in management and did not want a strong union to challenge their position or decisions. Given the reality that journalists are workers who need to put food on the family table, this campaign was soon defeated. Then over a decade later, the leadership of Smart Adeyemi resurrected the ghost and declared NUJ as being only a professional body. That leadership also tried its hands on all sorts of schemes to circumvent the reality that there is no basic condition of service for journalists. This included a Journalism Enhancement Bill. At this time, journalists in a number of organisations were not paid regularly. It was worse in the electronic media where in some cases wages were not paid for up to twenty six months! The NUJ approached me to advice on a solution to this problem and