The portals Diário de Notícias, TSF and Dinheiro Vivo returned to publishing news around 1pm on Tuesday, after more than 36 hours of no new entries following the termination of a contract limiting publishing tools.
As seen on the three portals, the online editorial line was limited from 00:00 on January 1 to around 13:00 this Tuesday. A source from one of these media outlets explained that the materials published during this period had already been programmed.
“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 document reads. A note from the editorial board (CR) and working committee (CT) of the broadcaster published this morning.
In the document, two organizations representing workers’ interests expressed regret that TSF journalists, technicians, artists and traffic did not have access to “back office” tools that allow “the TSF page to be edited and updated online at tsf.pt with big losses.” for 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.
Now a source from one of the Global Media Group (GMG) portals said that workers still do not know how long this solution will last.
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.”
The GMG executive committee, in their opinion, “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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