1. I am journalist. Online journalist. Mediengruppe Online and trade union. Cooperative survey 2008/2009.

2. Igler, Reitstätter 12/092 Online-Survey 2008 132 participants 65 employed 61 Freelancer 80 % of the Employees with collective agreement But only 13,5 % as Journalists 64 % IT- or PR-Collective agreement 11 % of the employees contracts relate to the austrian journalistlaw (eg. more holidays after ten years) (December 2008 – Februar 2009)

3. Igler, Reitstätter 12/093 System of collective bargaining in Austria Approx over 600 collective agreements 160 negotiated from GPA-djp (union for private salaried employed people and print workers)

4. Igler, Reitstätter 12/094 Who negotiate? Obligatory employer association (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich) Volontary employer associations WKO Newspaper associatiation Privat radio association Print magazine association

5. Igler, Reitstätter 12/095 A short time shift - 1999 1/4 GPA and DJP 2 unions -> GPA private salaried employed which was used to negotiate collective agreements with the obligatory employers association -> djp print workers and journalists (print, public and private broadcasting, freelancers, photographers) which was used to negotiate collective agreements with voluntary empolyers associations

6. Igler, Reitstätter 12/096 A short time shift - 1999 2/4 (Print-)Journalists had an update of their collective agreement integration online journalists and freelancers As soon as the agreement was signed, employers started to outsource their online departments 0r create separate online departments Leading to other working and wage conditions negotiated from different social partners The obligatory employers association and the Trade Union for private salaried employed

7. Igler, Reitstätter 12/097 A short time shift - 1999 3/4 In concrete (print-)online journalists found themselves represented from non-journalistic social partners in two different sectors: IT and PR two different collective agreements: IT and PR, which none was constructed for journalists

8. Igler, Reitstätter 12/098 A short time shift - 1999 4/4 Journalists Union and Union for private salaried employed people found themselves in a strange situation either Are these people journalists or not? Is it PR or IT? Austria has a law which defines journalists, listing print and traditional electronic media, missing the word online

9. Igler, Reitstätter 12/099 Mediengruppe Online http://mediengruppeonline.wordpress.com

10. Igler, Reitstätter 12/0910 Other Results of the Survey Low Selfesteem („I‘m an Editor, Online-Editor“) 80 % write own Storys, 60 % conduct Interviews, 30 % visit Pressconferences on a regular basis – so they do work as journalists About 50 Percent of the employees earn between 1.500 and 2.500 Euro (3/4 work fulltime) Freelancers earn between 1.000 and 2.000 Euro (not all work fulltime), 11 to 12 Euros per hour Percentage women men equal 62 % of Employees an 54 % of Freelancers have a university degree Freelancers are younger than employees, all together more than 50 percent are between 20 and 30 years Awareness of being in the wrong collective contract

11. Igler, Reitstätter 12/0911 Ten years after – 20091/2 One Union GPA-djp -> Within the union‘s logic the oursourced online-departments are now all part of the journalists union part (Print-)Publishers tried to outsource their journalists the same way they did 10 years before with onine – which the union in most cases successfully stoped (Print-)Journalists and publishers are updating their collective agreement. Aiming to reintegrate online journalists (same wage or not? Different working conditions regarding working time regulations or not?)

12. Igler, Reitstätter 12/0912 Ten years after – 20092/2 Online-journalistic working councils are discussing their matters at the PR-collective agreements negotiations, leading to negotiations how to get them out of the obligatory employers association. Journalists print and online build the negotiation team of the print-collective agreement. Online-Journalists becoming part of trade union board.

13. Es gibt vieles, für das es sich lohnt, organisiert zu sein.