Fairfax journalists stage protest rallies against ‘shocking’ outsourcing plans
Fairfax journalists, who have gone on strike over plans to outsource newspaper production, are staging rallies in Sydney, Woollongong and Newcastle today and tomorrow to protest against the proposals.
Around 800 journalists have taken industrial action, with support from the journalists’ union the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, leaving skeleton staff in ‘exempt positions’ – those who stay behind to work in strike situations – to produce the papers over the next 24 hours.
The strike is scheduled to end on Friday morning.
No great loss. I hear Gina Rinehart has 1,300 chinese journo’s ready on a plan as i type. Um Goi !
I hear most of them don’t even know where “Woollongong” is. Probably because when they google it, they get “Wollongong” instead. I mean, come on, we know we clearly don’t offer much in the way of news but surely it’s not that hard to get right.
All of us are hoping for the best at you’re competition too 🙁 …next week is giving us all pause