RTP workers begin a seven-day strike today

RTP workers are holding the first of seven days of strike action this Saturday to protest a lack of career progression and wage increases, the Sinttav union said on Thursday.

Thus, according to the National Union of Telecommunications and Audiovisual Workers (Sintaw), “following an overtime strike at RTP, which had already removed several programs from the station’s information network,” the organization sent “a seven-day strike notice to the company administration.” , starts at midnight on the 14th [este sábado] and will end at 11:59 p.m. on October 20,” the same note reads.

Sinttav explained that “this strike occurred following the decision of the RTP Board of Directors to carry out only 53 professional adjustments (career developments) among 1,800 workers, not to carry out any temporary promotions to combat inflation, contrary to instructions.” the government itself and refuse to even negotiate on these issues with the trade unions.”

According to the union structure, workers are “fed up with the abnormal situation that in a public company like RTP there is not even a procedure for performance evaluation and promotion,” which also indicates that through the public channel “there is repeated use precarious work and lack of transparency in human resource management.”

He predicts that the strike “could greatly affect the work of state media” with the addition of another union.

According to Sinttav, the strike “will continue until the board of directors sits down at the negotiating table, ready to discuss priority issues for RTP workers, in the spirit of constructive dialogue and without the usual attitude of postponing problems and decisions in order to gain time.”

The union said that “in fact, this has systematically been the strategy of all administrations over the past two decades and has resulted in the loss of 85% of the value of the company’s workers’ pay scales.”

The overtime strike called by Sinttav began on October 5 and lasted indefinitely.