Journalists still out
NZPA-Reuter Sydney Talks aimed at ending a four-week strike by Australian journalists over extra pay for video editing broke up on Friday with no signs of progress. Representatives of the striking journalists and newspaper publishers have been meeting with arbitration officials for several days to try to break the deadlock.
Journalists on the main city newspapers and the domestic news agency, Australian Associated Press, walked out when 29 subeditors on two Sydney dailies were dismissed for refusing to use video display units (V.D.U.s).
The dismissed men were following the instructions of the Australian Journalists’ Association,- which banned the use of the V.D.U.s, de-
manding an extra SNZSB a week. The union dismissed an arbitration award of SNZS.BO as insulting. Radio and television journalists with the State-run Australian Broadcasting Commission on Friday 7 ended a 24-hour strike in support of their newspaper colleagues, but commercial broadcasters voted not to join the stoppage.
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