On Friday, journalists at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review, WAToday and Brisbane Times walked off the job for five days in response to the last pay offer made by Nine management in negotiations over their enterprise bargaining agreement.
The last time this happened, Nine [then Fairfax] journos were putting their jobs at risk by engaging in illegal industrial action. This time, Nine decided to test the resolve of its heavily unionised workforce — soon after announcing job cuts while sending Scott Cam to the Paris Olympics to promote The Block — during the extremely small window of time they are legally allowed to strike.
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