The editorial workforce decides to stroll out after refusing an annual pay rise of three to 4 %.
Journalists at a few of Australia’s greatest newspapers have gone on strike forward of the Paris Olympics after administration rejected their calls for for greater pay.
Editorial workers at 9 Leisure, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Monetary Evaluation, Brisbane Occasions and WAtoday, stopped work at 11am on Friday, hours earlier than the opening ceremony of the thirty third Olympic Video games.
In Melbourne, journalists picketed outdoors The Age newspaper carrying T-shirts and waving indicators studying: “Don’t burn down journalism.”
The strike comes after workers voted to reject annual pay rises of between 3 and 4 % over the following three years, arguing the supply doesn’t preserve tempo with rising residing prices.
“We wish a CPI-aligned pay enhance, a dedication to office variety, safeguards round AI, and honest therapy for freelancers,” the Media, Leisure and Arts Alliance stated in a put up on X.
9 Leisure, which additionally owns tv channels 9 Community and 9 Radio, is the official broadcaster of the video games and has despatched round 200 workers to Paris to cowl the competitors.
Like different nations, Australia has seen its media panorama devastated by successive rounds of job cuts lately amid falling promoting revenues.
9 Leisure stated final month it might lay off as much as 200 workers, weeks after rivals Information Ltd and Seven West Media introduced job cuts.
