FAIRFAX Media needs to reveal details of planned closures of its printing presses after announcing print editions will still continue for years, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) says.
Fairfax chief executive Greg Hywood told shareholders during Wednesday's annual general meeting that print editions of newspapers, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, would continue "as long as there is profitable demand for them," which could be more than three years.
The announcement came after Fairfax revealed in June that it would close print sites at Chullora in Sydney and Tullamarine in Melbourne and turn the papers into tabloid-size editions.
But AMWU national print secretary Lorrain Cassin says Fairfax needs to be honest with shareholders about the future of the company's printing plans.
"Why is the company closing the brand-new, state-of-the-art facility at Tullamarine when the newspaper would continue to be printed there for at least three years?" she said in a statement.
"Mr Hywood needs to come clean on exactly what is going on."
Meanwhile, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance is taking Fairfax to Fair Work Australia over four job losses in Tasmania.
The media union says it has filed an adverse action claim after four staff were let go from the Launceston Examiner for what it alleges is in retaliation for their industrial action.
The newspaper employees had recently passed a resolution of no confidence in Fairfax management, the union says.
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