1. About Us
(The Campaign/About Us)

... by big business. Fair Go Fairfax is the official campaign site for working journalists and editorial staff at print publications and websites including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, T...

2. Richard Glover's Pledge
(The Campaign/Actions)

...n unjustified and provocative act by Fairfax management. It has long been accepted practice that when staff journalists are on strike, columnists should also remove their labour. Mike Carlton did...

3. Executive Salaries: A study
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... future all right. Only it’s their future they are thinking about. The cost of going to 5% for all their staff (they are currently offering between 4% and 4.5%) is less than the pay rise the top 7 e...

4. Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... hiring and in their current manic campaign to slash the salaries and conditions of the most experienced staff. In balance-sheet terms, it may make sense, but balance sheets work to 12-month horizon...

5. Fairfax cuts spell decline of excellence
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...uality journalism. Day was lamenting the latest announcement from Fairfax Media, of plans to cut 550 staff - about 5 per cent of the workforce - including more than 120 journalists from the group'...

6. Redundancies: Full Picture Revealed
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax management announced today it had increased the minimum number of staff to be made redundant by 50 per cent and admitted that it is targeting all staff, including subeditors, reporters, design

7. Media Alliance alert: Company threat to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...e company presented at the meeting was an ultimatum. The company told us that they would not allow staff members who are currently on strike to return to work on Monday unless we accepted the co...

8. ACTU: Fairfax job cuts go too far
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

... was axing 550 jobs just a week after it announced a 47% increase in profit to a record $387 million. “Staff at these newspapers work hard to inform the public and report Australia's news.  “...

9. Holding Fire On Picket Lines At Printers
(The Campaign/Actions)

...been two significant developments today that again illustrate Fairfax management’s attempt to intimidate staff fighting to uphold quality journalism. First, the Workplace Ombudsman is investigating...

10. Australian staffers express their support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...a Alliance members at The Australian deplore the growing willingness among corporate leaders to focus on staff sackings whenever they choose to carry out company restructures or cost-saving programs. ...

11. Citizen McCarthy swings Fairfax axe
(The Campaign/In The News)

... deputy Brian McCarthy said they would cut 550 jobs to save $50 million a year. Almost a third of these staff losses, or 165 jobs, were to come from the ranks of journalists. Read more ...

12. Enterprise Agreement Breakthrough
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...de at 9.15 to return as a collective at 9.30am, Newcastle Herald journalists will return from 8am, with staff meeting to walk in together. A group will meet in the King Street entrance for the 9am s...

13. Welcome back to work!
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...te was held on the proposal at information meetings of members held on Sunday. The law requires that all staff voting on this agreement have access to a full copy of the proposed enterprise agreement ...

14. Richard Glover interviews Alan Oakley
(The Campaign/In The News)

...ular column for the paper's Saturday edition, because of the current strike by journalists and editorial staff. He was told that he would no longer be writing for the newspaper as a result. On the...

15. We're right behind you say Murdoch journos
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...ly Times endorses and supports the actions of journalists at Fairfax who are fighting to retain adequate staffing and conditions at their mastheads. Alliance members at HWT recognise that profession...

16. NZ EPMU: Letter of Support
(The Campaign/Letters of Support)

...d by reading an AAP story on Fairfax's own NZ Stuff website. This was quickly followed up by an email to staff from our general manager and the one from Kirk and McCarthy - but by then the damage was ...

17. Crikey: Secret Fairfax share scheme key to slash and burn
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...story published by Crikey.com.au today begins; "An extraordinarily generous scheme to reward senior staff based on company performance has been exposed at Fairfax and sheds new light on the rec...

18. Fairfax Members Vote To Strike
(The Campaign/Actions)

... On Wednesday August 26, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced that 550 staff would be cut. The staff reductions would take place in both Australia and New Zealand, wi...

19. Staff continue the battle
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Meetings of Fairfax staff yesterday involved people from all parts of the business - editorial, advertising, online and administration - who came together to protest against the staff cuts announced e

20. ABC PM: Fairfax standing ground over journalist strike
(The Campaign/In The News)

...pany's announcement of 550 job cuts. They say Fairfax is compromising on quality by retrenching too many staff, but Fairfax's response so far has been unbending. http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/aud...

21. Fairfax directors’ $22 million dividend
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...y Morning Herald and The Age will be fighting to produce quality journalism after 14% of their editorial staff have been sacked. So what could the directors buy for their $22 million? They could...

22. Media Report: The axe falls at Fairfax
(The Campaign/In The News)

Five hundred and fifty staff at Fairfax are to go in a major restructure. Management said they were largely immune from the global newspaper downturn, but has the reality of falling circulation and ad

23. Planned Action Today
(The Campaign/Actions)

A series of protests and pickets are planned for Fairfax staff today. Newcastle - Following the success of today's rally at the Hunter Street mall, a further public rally will be held at 4.30pm at C

24. The stockbroker's view
(The Campaign/In The News)

...'s own Just The Facts web site. In it, the broking firm writes that Fairfax had indicated that "the staff cuts in editorial will not affect the quality of its newspapers" and "the staff...

25. Fairfax journos quiz Kirk's pay rise
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nable to explain how he will guarantee that quality journalism can be maintained after cutting editorial staff by 14%. He defended his massive pay rise by saying it was commensurate on hitting certain...

26. Sunday Age clings to "hope"
(The Campaign/In The News)

Fairfax Media plans to cut up to 14% of the editorial staff from its metro daily newspapers. One of the affected papers, The Sunday Age, notes that sub-editors' jobs are among some of those to be lost

27. 550 jobs go while Fairfax chiefs get paid $11.67 million
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...ort, Kirk is being paid the equivalent of more than 10 Australian prime ministers. It was Kirk who told staff via e-mail that 550 of them will lose their jobs in yet another round of redundancies at...

28. Union to talk job cuts with Fairfax staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) will hold talks with Fairfax Media employees today over plans to cut 550 jobs. Read more.

29. SMH owner Fairfax Media to cut 550 jobs
(The Campaign/In The News)

...mme to reduce its workforce by 5%. Shocked journalists held a stop-work meeting after management told staff via email of the cuts, which will see 180 journalists lose their jobs. Read more. ...

30. Sackings could kill papers, expert warns
(The Campaign/In The News)

NEWSPAPER companies risk dying "a death of a thousand cuts" if they fire staff en masse without drastically reinventing their businesses, a leading international media consultant warned A