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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Union officials predict News Limited will soon announce further job losses at printing sites across Australia but they hope it will be done in full consultation with staff.
The warning came after rival newspaper company Fairfax Media announced that 1900 jobs would go across its operations.
News Limited is expected to announce hundreds of redundancies when it unveils its “wide-ranging corporate restructure” in the coming days, The Australian reported on Tuesday.
Delegates from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) held meetings with News Limited management in Sydney on Tuesday to discuss consultation about the company’s planned restructure.
“We were talking about a process of consultation that was going to be transparent and give dignity to its employees,” the industrial officer for the AMWU’s printing division, Katrina Ford, told AAP.
Ms Ford said the meeting was productive and that the AMWU was working with News to ensure they weren’t “side-swiped”.
“At no time during the discussion did they (News Limited) make any comment with respect to print dying,” she said.
Ms Ford said News had already announced redundancies across various sites in South Australia, NSW, Western Australia and Queensland in the past three weeks.
So far these redundancies amounted to about 54 job losses. This was in addition to 25 editorial staff who were made redundant across the group at the beginning of the month.
Ms Ford said it was likely that more redundancies would follow.
“Given the state of the industry there is going to be more,” she said.
“We are hopeful they will show a little bit of dignity and compassion to our members but watch this space.”
A spokesman for the Media, Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA) said the union had been in contact with News on Tuesday over an agreed consultation process, managing seven-day rosters and any future redundancies.
“As of this morning they were still saying we don’t have a number, we don’t have a target and they were uncertain as to when (News Limited CEO) Kim Williams would be making a statement,” the spokesman told AAP.
“All we can do is take them at face value.”
News Limited has been contacted for comment.
Fairfax announced on Monday that it would close two major printing presses in NSW and Victoria as part of a radical move to become a digital media company.
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