Nine publishing staff seek pay rises and AI guardrails amid Meta standoff
The proposed deal would deliver an 8% pay bump for staff in the first year, followed by 6% increases in the second and third years.
Journalists from Nine Entertainment’s publishing business are set to open talks with management over a new pay deal that would include a pay rise and guardrails around the use of generative AI, as the company remains locked in a standoff with Meta over lucrative content deals.
The proposed deal, which unionised staff endorsed last week, would run for the next three years and deliver an 8% pay bump for staff in the first year, followed by 6% increases in the second and third years, according to union materials seen by Capital Brief. The “log of claims” has since been put to Nine management by the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), a union representing journalists.
In the proposal, staff also called for guardrails around the editorial use of generative artificial intelligence, which were a sticking point in the protracted negotiations with writers that brought Hollywood to a halt last year. It also presses for improved career progression and more newsroom diversity and racial equality.
“Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have shown the potential benefits and areas of concern for its use in the media industry,” the union proposal reads.
