Journalists at the Guardian and Observer will stage two 48-hour strikes over the planned sale of the Sunday newspaper. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said its members will walk out on December 4-5 and again on December 12-13 following a “resounding” ballot result in favour of industrial action over the planned sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media.

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Journalists at the Guardian and Observer will stage two 48-hour strikes over the planned sale of the Sunday newspaper.

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Journalists to strike over planned sale of Observer newspaper

Members of the NUJ will stage two 48-hour walkouts next month.

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Journalists at The Guardian will stage their first strike action in over half a century next month in protest at its publisher’s decision to sell The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to a five-year-old start-up. Sky News has learnt that staff will walk out for two days on December 4 and 5 amid an […]

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The NUJ said it had repeatedly urged the Guardian Media Group (GMG) to halt talks with Tortoise Media and to engage with the union on the future of the title

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The Guardian’s head honchos are trying to work out how to keep the paper in print on the 4th and 5th of December when the majority of their staff look set to strike over the Observer sale. They’re rattling through the usual strikebreaking tactics… So far bosses have tried getting HR to innocently ask staff what their plans are for the strike days so they can sort out “contingency plans.[…] Read the rest

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Guardian Deploys Strikebreaking Tactics Ahead of Observer Sale Walkout

Journalists at the Guardian and Observer will stage two 48-hour strikes over the planned sale of the Sunday newspaper. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said its members will walk out on December 4-5 and again on December 12-13 following a “resounding” ballot result in favour of industrial action over the planned sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media. The NUJ said it had repeatedly urged the Guardian Media Group (GMG) to halt talks with T…

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Staff have staged an impressive show of unity that may backfire on a paper that is regarded as an unwanted stepchild

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Will the Guardian strike save or kill the Observer?

Guardian and Observer journalists have agreed to a 48-hour strike in protest at the planned sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media. Meanwhile, Tortoise has come out punching and issued a statement insisting that it has a plan to save The Observer from irrelevance and closure under its current owners. And Guardian Media Group management has issued an update to staff saying Observer journalists who don’t want to join Tortoise may be offered volunt…

Guardian journalists to strike over planned sale of Observer newspaper

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