Editorial employees vote to stroll off the job after rejecting annual pay improve of between 3 and 4 %.
Journalists at a few of Australia’s largest newspapers have gone on strike on the eve of the Paris Olympics after administration knocked again their calls for for larger pay.
Editorial employees at 9 Leisure, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Monetary Assessment, the Brisbane Instances and WAtoday, stopped working at 11am on Friday, hours earlier than the opening ceremony of the thirty third Olympic Video games.
In Melbourne, journalists picketed exterior The Age newspaper whereas sporting T-shirts and waving placards emblazoned with the slogan: “Don’t torch journalism.”
The walkout comes after employees voted to reject annual pay will increase of between 3 and 4 % over the following three years on the idea that the supply didn’t hold tempo with rising residing prices.
“We wish a pay rise in keeping with CPI, a dedication to office variety, safeguards round AI and a good deal for freelancers,” the Media, Leisure and Arts Alliance stated in a publish on X.
9 Leisure, which additionally owns 9 Community tv and 9 Radio, is the official broadcaster of the video games and has despatched about 200 employees to Paris to cowl the competitors.
Like different nations, Australia has seen its media panorama devastated by successive rounds of job cuts lately amid plunging promoting revenues.
9 Leisure stated final month that it could let go of as much as 200 workers, weeks after rivals Information Ltd and Seven West Media introduced redundancies.