Fairfax Media staff will hold stop-work meetings after up to 30 journalists were made forcibly redundant.

The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) is meeting with newsroom staff for a management-approved stop work on Tuesday and has vowed to fight the latest cuts.

“It was a disappointing move by the company yesterday and a very tough day for Fairfax folks affected,” union organiser Katelin McInerney said.“It is difficult to see how Fairfax will continue doing what they do with this reduction in staff.”

Editors in Sydney and Melbourne called journalists and artists in one-by-one and told them they no longer had a job, sources said.

Some of the staffers have worked for the company for decades.

Award-winning illustrator Rocco Fazzari, who has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald for 25 years, was made redundant by the editor-in-chief, Darren Goodsir, on Monday.

Fazzari, whose animated videos frequently go viral, posted on Facebook a picture of a tree being felled, and said he had most likely done his last drawing for the SMH.

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