Journalists at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have voted to strike for a week after Fairfax Media announced it would cut about 25 per cent of the jobs at its major Australian newspapers.
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"BREAKING: Sydney Morning Herald journalists vote to strike for a full week in response to job cuts," Fairfax federal editor Bevan Shields tweeted on Wednesday afternoon.
Colleague Michael Koziol, who also writes for both the Herald and The Age in Melbourne, tweeted: "Sydney Morning Herald journalists have voted to walk off the job for one week - we are on strike."
SMH and Age staff walk out of Parliament House press gallery after voting to go on strike for 7 days. pic.twitter.com/777KkuTZkS
— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) May 3, 2017
Australia's oldest publisher told staff on Wednesday it is looking to lose 125 staff from the newsrooms of the Herald, The Age and WA Today.
"While we will be looking across all parts of the newsroom, at the end of the redundancy program we expect there will be significantly fewer editorial management, video, presentation and section writer roles," the company said in an internal note.
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