“Rai held hostage by the parties”. A package of five days of strike proclaimed by a very large majority (eight votes against and one abstention) by the assembly of the Cdr and the trustees of Rai. Which contests, explains a note, “the desire to transform the public service in the megaphone of the parties, and to the company the mergers of newspapers brought down from above which would empty Radio1 of its news vocation, the lack of will to hold a public selection to replace the over 100 colleagues who left Rai in recent years, the failure to respect the union agreements on staffing in TGR, the absence of resources to stabilize the temporary workers who work in the networks, the cuts to the crews and the cancellation by the management of the performance bonus”.
In the last period the Cdrs of the RAI newspapers have protested several times. Often against some reports broadcast on the news because they are considered “too biased” towards the Meloni government. Like the one presenting the FdI Atreju party. And against some directors of the Viale Mazzini information channels for some decisions that led to clashes with the editorial staff. Not only. In recent months, Rai has lost figures (journalistic and otherwise) considered pillars of state television, from Lucia Annunziata a Bianca Berlingueryes Fabio Fazio until Amadeus. Not to mention the flop of some TV programs which were canceled from the schedule after a few months of programming. Like ‘Forward People’ by Nunzia De Girolamo.
Now the decision to entrust Usigrai with a five-day strike package. The Assembly of the Cdr, we read further in the document, “agrees with Usigrai: the public service cannot be the megaphone of the parties. A position taken by the union which has also had an echo outside the national borders: it is in fact an international mission on press freedom in our country is essential. Not only that, information is the great absence in the Industrial Plan. There are guidelines on the impact that the transformation into a digital media company will have on the journalism sector. Optimization of editorial offer’ and ‘Evolution of skills and organizational interventions’ there are no journalists, and for now the only interventions, lowered from above without any discussion with the union, are those which provide for the dismemberment of the Radio, with Gr Parliament and the editorial staff sports which would be assigned respectively to Rai Parliament and Rai Sport, effectively emptying Radio1 of its all news vocation based on information and sport, without any reasonable organizational or industrial motivation, without any advantage for the newspaper or the company”. All this, we read further in the document, “in a context of failure to respect the trade union agreements on the staff of the regional newspaper and lack of turnover in the national newspapers, which in fact produce a reduction in the employment perimeter. There are over 100 non-retirements replaced in recent years, resulting in greater workloads in the face of an increase in information products. All this with continuous budget cuts for the crews and the lack of resources to proceed with the stabilization of temporary colleagues who work in programs, such as Rai. has undertaken to do with the so-called phase 2”.
The Assembly of Cdr and trustees further notes: “The fact that Rai has repeatedly reiterated that it does not want to proceed with a public selection, the only one that allows transparent access to the company, prevents Tgr colleagues from being able to move to reunite with family members or for legitimate professional ambitions. At the same time, the transfers of colleagues from genres to nationals, in the absence of competitive rankings, facilitate the so-called ‘first uses’ of direct call in the programmes, while the Rai code of ethics imposes ‘the use of competitive procedures or in any case of objective criteria of selection’ and in fact create new precarious employment”. And again: “For years the company has not replaced colleagues on maternity leave, indirectly obtaining an economic advantage and increasing, in this case too, the workload of the editorial staff”, it is underlined in the approved document, and “lastly, in this worrying context, the cancellation of the agreement on the performance bonus is inserted, with the motivation of wanting to align it with that of the other professional categories. The meeting finds unacceptable what the company has proposed to the union, namely that it does not want to provide a fixed portion like for other employees and that it wants to link the distribution to the general audience results of Rai and no longer to those of the major editions of the news, as per previous agreement. In fact, by making journalists pay for waste and any wrong editorial choices by the top management, who are not called to answer for them, with a cut in journalists’ salaries”. For all these reasons, the Assembly of Rai Cdrs and trustees proclaimed the ” state of agitation which marks the start of a mobilization” and entrusted Usigrai with a package of “up to 5 days of strike”.
The right-wing union of the state TV, UniRai, an internal union created at the end of last November in conflict with Usigrai, will not participate in the “political strike”. Which considers “the stabilization of temporary workers as a priority as well as fighting to resolve the issue of staff shortages within a framework of certainties on economic resources. We will also make our voice heard at the tables on the performance bonus so that the new agreement does not penalize anyone”. But, it is specified, “we will not participate in ‘political’ strikes so as not to be instrumental to those who are painting the company, for electoral purposes only, as a bandwagon in decline a very different situation from how we want to represent it. We are convinced that the best tool to protect workers is that of mediation, leaving aside any political and ideological opposition”, concludes the Unirai note.
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– 2024-05-02 08:02:43
