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June 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A meeting between union representatives and Fairfax on how and when it will transfer editorial production to New Zealand has been “extremely worthwhile”, the media company says.
But it said it was still too premature to confirm when redundancies in Australia would take place.
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) met with Fairfax representatives at 1pm (AEST) on Thursday, after the company confirmed on Tuesday it would be pushing ahead with plans to move page design, layout and sub-editing jobs at regional newspapers in Australia to New Zealand.
Fairfax Regional Media chief executive and publisher Allan Browne told AAP the meeting was “extremely worthwhile”.
“I believe that we achieved a great deal in terms of restructure around the … redundancies and clarification from both parties.”
He said there were no plans for further meetings at this stage.
“We’ll generally work towards the next step and a meeting will be called when that’s necessary.”
As to when the redundancies would take effect, Mr Browne said it was too early to say.
“It’s probably 24 hours premature at this stage for me to be putting a date on that, I’d like to know that both sides are happy before I mention a date.”
The meeting came after the NSW upper house passed a motion earlier on Thursday calling on Fairfax management to abandon its outsourcing plans, which will affect the Newcastle Herald and Illawarra Mercury.
“Fairfax’s proposed changes will undermine the quality of news and current affairs reporting in the Hunter, the Illawarra and the rest of NSW,” Greens MP John Kaye said in a statement.
A spokesman from Fairfax denied the claims.
“We note the NSW upper house’s position about the company’s new editorial production arrangements for the Newcastle Herald and Illawarra Mercury,” Fairfax spokesman Brad Hatch said.
He reissued a statement issued earlier this week saying speculation the quality of the newspapers would suffer was uninformed and incorrect.
He also denied speculation the newspapers’ commitment to their local communities would suffer.
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