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. New CEO's message to staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...nting centres, radio stations, events and market strength – and most importantly, a committed and valued staff across Australia, New Zealand and the United States.  I believe firmly in the compan...

6. 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...

7. 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

8. 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'...

9. 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...

10. 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.  “...

11. 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...

12. 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. ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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

15. 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...

16. 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...

17. 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...

18. Kirk's diktat versus a bottom-up process
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...eality, Kirk and his deputy CEO Brian McCarthy did indeed issue a diktat on August 26. Their e-mail told staff, and sharemarket analysts, that 550 people would have to lose their jobs in order to cut ...

19. 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...

20. More golden handcuffs?
(The Campaign/Editorial)

... top quality journalists - but instead Fairfax made 550 people redundant, including 15% of the editorial staff of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. This time around will any Fairfax senior e...

21. Kirk insults staff
(The Campaign/Editorial)

Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk, like his fellow McKinsey consultancy predecessor Fred Hilmer, walked into the job with no experience in the media industry. But then, virtually no one on the Fairfax boar

22. Fairfax CEO Kirk reluctant to speak to staff
(The Campaign/In The News)

Since their August 26 e-mail to staff announcing 550 redundancies, Fairfax Media CEO David Kirk (who is paid $3.41 million) and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy (who is paid $2.43 million) have refused to me

23. 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...

24. 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...

25. 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. ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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...

28. 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...

29. 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 ...

30. Kirk of 1138 Days
(The Campaign/Editorial)

...officer of Fairfax Media on October 17, 2005. Some1138 days passed between then and when Kirk spoke to a staff  meeting at The Age in Melbourne on Thursday, November 27, 2008. ...