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This month’s TUC (Trade Union Con­gress) saw a Pub­lic ser­vice broad­cast­ing and copy­right piracy motion car­ried. The motion instructed con­gress to cam­paign actively against the top-slicing of the licence fee, and lobby for alter­na­tive fund­ing mech­a­nisms for pub­lic ser­vice broad­cast­ing, in par­tic­u­lar for the use of indus­try levies to ensure a qual­ity local and regional news ser­vice can be main­tained and devel­oped on ITV. The motion was for­warded by the NUJ. To see the NUJ’s Gen­eral Sec­re­tary, Jeremy Dear’s, arti­cle on alter­na­tives to top-slicing, see our “What’s been said?” page.