The TSF and Dinheiro Vivo portals have not been updated since the morning of January 1 due to the termination of a contract that made access to publishing tools impossible.
“The TSF website cannot yet be updated, a situation that has persisted since the early hours of January 1, 2024, when due to contract termination, all tools on the current platform were no longer available,” the signed note reads. The Editorial Board (CH) and the Labor Committee (LC) of the television and radio company.
In the document, the two workers’ organizations say that given the ongoing problems, they have written to Global Media Group (GMG) management to express regret that “decisions were not made in a timely manner to avoid disruption to normal operations.” site” and provide an interim solution that ensures the transition to a new format.”
A source at Dinheiro Vivo confirmed that employees of this media outlet also do not have access to “back office” functions.
CR and CT TSF regret that TSF journalists, technicians, artists and traffic do not have access to “back office” tools that allow “the TSF page to be edited and updated online, on tsf.pt, at great cost to readers, listeners.” . and, as a result, for the image of TSF, a leading digital radio station.”
The two workers’ representative bodies noted that before the end of the year they warned management and those in charge about the risks of the transition, without guaranteeing the safety conditions and proper functioning of the “facility”, warning that the “online” file could be affected.
“The elected members of the CR and CT promptly questioned all participants in the process, warning of very likely risks, and did not receive any guarantees regarding this transition,” the note says.
Given the inability to access the portal, CR and CT called for “all measures to be taken to ensure that the TSF website, a radio that has maintained digital leadership despite conditions of extreme human resource shortage, can continue to provide news and maintain its digital archive in full.”
On Friday, the media outlets Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, O Jogo and TSF approved a strike on January 10, after the group’s management told workers the day before that it was unable to pay workers’ salaries in December and that its financial situation was “extremely serious.”
In the strike notice, workers are demanding “immediate payment” of unpaid wages, as well as Christmas bonuses and gratuities due to independent workers (green checks), remembering that “many service providers” who work for the group they had to “resort to” , solidarity among journalists to survive.”
At the same time, they call on the GMG executive committee to “immediately put an end to any process determining the termination of employment contracts.”
The administration is accused of basing “its behavior on contradictions between what it said it would do and what it has done” since taking office just over two months ago, and is urged to focus “on investment and improving conditions labor” to expand the group. and ensure “effective freedom of information for all citizens.”
In their opinion, the executive committee of GMG “does not meet the standards required by the management of the media group.” On Sunday, SJ demanded that GMG shareholders dissolve the executive committee for making statements “harmful to the interests” of the group.
Shareholders and the executive committee trade accusations and threats while workers have not received their December salaries and Christmas bonuses and service providers have not received payments they are owed.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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