Bilan
29th August 2008, 04:32
Journalists at Fairfax newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age have voted to strike until Monday over job cuts and pay negotiations.
Yesterday's walkout comes just days after Fairfax Media announced it would cut 550 jobs under a business improvement program.
Journalists at Fairfax's Sunday publications, the Sun-Herald and Sunday Age, as well as NSW regional titles The Herald in Newcastle and the Illawarra Mercury, also voted to strike until Monday.
Fairfax management would not comment on the industrial action, except to say its papers would still come out.
The job cuts, which affect five per cent of the Fairfax workforce in Australia and New Zealand, are being made under a new business improvement program to save $50 million a year, the company said on Tuesday.
The cuts will include 180 editorial jobs.
Fairfax, which merged with Rural Press in 2007, recorded a net profit of $386.9 million for 2007-08, up from $263.51 million the previous year.
Brisbane Times (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/fairfax-newspaper-staff-go-on-strike/2008/08/29/1219516693266.html)
SOLIDARITY IS STRENGTH!
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COME WITH US
Our comrades at Fairfax media are on strike over their management’s plan to cut 550 staff. Fairfax management has shown its contempt for quality journalism and the talented and dedicated people who produce it.
They want to cut the heart out of Fairfax.
If your masthead is on strike, do not go into work. Join your colleagues in their action. If you are a freelancer, don’t file to Fairfax. This is too important to all of us and we must show Fairfax that the community of Australian journalists is serious about upholding quality journalism.
All Alliance members are welcome to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our comrades at Fairfax. Come and join the protests underway in NSW and Victoria. For details, visit our website at www.fairgofairfax.org.au (http://www.fairgofairfax.org.au/)
It’s important that we all stand together and fight for the future of our newspapers. If you have a friend who isn’t protected by the union, tell them to sign up at: https://www.alliance.org.au/join.htm (https://www.alliance.org.au/join.htm)
Fair Go, Fairfax. Don’t Discount Journalism
http://www.fairgofairfax.org.au/
Yesterday's walkout comes just days after Fairfax Media announced it would cut 550 jobs under a business improvement program.
Journalists at Fairfax's Sunday publications, the Sun-Herald and Sunday Age, as well as NSW regional titles The Herald in Newcastle and the Illawarra Mercury, also voted to strike until Monday.
Fairfax management would not comment on the industrial action, except to say its papers would still come out.
The job cuts, which affect five per cent of the Fairfax workforce in Australia and New Zealand, are being made under a new business improvement program to save $50 million a year, the company said on Tuesday.
The cuts will include 180 editorial jobs.
Fairfax, which merged with Rural Press in 2007, recorded a net profit of $386.9 million for 2007-08, up from $263.51 million the previous year.
Brisbane Times (http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/fairfax-newspaper-staff-go-on-strike/2008/08/29/1219516693266.html)
SOLIDARITY IS STRENGTH!
--------------------
COME WITH US
Our comrades at Fairfax media are on strike over their management’s plan to cut 550 staff. Fairfax management has shown its contempt for quality journalism and the talented and dedicated people who produce it.
They want to cut the heart out of Fairfax.
If your masthead is on strike, do not go into work. Join your colleagues in their action. If you are a freelancer, don’t file to Fairfax. This is too important to all of us and we must show Fairfax that the community of Australian journalists is serious about upholding quality journalism.
All Alliance members are welcome to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our comrades at Fairfax. Come and join the protests underway in NSW and Victoria. For details, visit our website at www.fairgofairfax.org.au (http://www.fairgofairfax.org.au/)
It’s important that we all stand together and fight for the future of our newspapers. If you have a friend who isn’t protected by the union, tell them to sign up at: https://www.alliance.org.au/join.htm (https://www.alliance.org.au/join.htm)
Fair Go, Fairfax. Don’t Discount Journalism
http://www.fairgofairfax.org.au/