The websites and social networks of Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias, O Jogo or Dinheiro Vivo will be disrupted for 24 hours due to the strike of Global Media Group workers that began at midnight this Wednesday.
These publications published on their websites the workers’ strike, a 24-hour strike to protest the group’s intention to lay off up to 200 workers and in defense of journalism.
On its website, Diário de Notícias also said Thursday’s paper edition would not appear on newsstands due to the strike and would return on Friday.
According to a message broadcast at midnight on Wednesday, TSF workers also joined the strike.
In addition to Global Media Group (GMG) workers, the strike also covers “all journalists, regardless of the media organization in which they work” from 14:00 to 15:00 on January 10, “so that they can express their solidarity” with GMG workers, as well as “to warn the political authorities and civil society about the situation in the sector.”
SJ, on behalf of GMG workers, justified the strike – from 00:00 to 24:00 this Wednesday – as “repeated failure to comply” by the group’s management.
Justifying the strike, SJ stressed that “GMG’s executive committee has repeatedly failed to fulfill the most basic duties and legal obligations towards its employees and service providers” and “has questioned the titles of its positions, to the detriment of the company.” myself.”
The strike comes on the same day as Global Media’s voluntary redundancy deadline.
On December 6, in an internal statement, GMG’s executive committee, headed by José Paulo Fafe, announced that it would urgently negotiate layoffs with 150–200 workers and embark on a restructuring that it said was necessary to avoid “more than the foreseeable outcome ” bankruptcy of the group.”
The Global Media president said on Tuesday that he had a meeting with the fund on Monday and that he had been “promised” to transfer “by early next week” to pay outstanding wages, but he also added that within the framework of the parliamentary committee on culture, communications, youth and sport that if the group fails to achieve the desired number of redundancies, it may be forced to carry out a collective redundancy.
On September 21, World Opportunity Fund (WOF) acquired 51% of the shares of Páginas Civilizados, the direct owner of Global Media, obtaining 25.628% of the shares and voting rights in Global Media.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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