Fairfax strikes leader Marcus Strom joins journalist’s union
The man who led the Fairfax strikes has joined the journalist’s union as a campaigner.
Marcus Strom led industrial action against plans to outsource Fairfax production to New Zealand in May as Fairfax house committee chairman.
He started at the Media Alliance last week having taken a year of unpaid leave from Fairfax, where he was deputy foreign editor on The Sydney Morning Herald.
Strom takes on a role campaigning about the future of journalism.
You can see the parallel. The only question is whether the increasingly self-interested and ideological role of the MEAA bureaucracy is speeding the decline of news media?
The Strom quote is beautiful in its transparency. (What do you mean “we”, white man?)