Media workers working for Northern Greece's stations of the national Public Broadcaster ERT SA are to hold a 24-hour strike on June 9, protesting the state's plan to shut down regional public broadcasting stations.
Believing
that the public broadcaster in every country is
a cornerstone of free information and content quality and that these measures
are injurious to media independence, the journalists are striking against the
following:
1. Shutting down and/or merging of regional
stations: The state's plan to downsize the three major public TV and radio stations will
severely handicap the role of public broadcasting.
2. Lack of a collective agreement: Media workers in public television and radio
stations have not been covered by a collective agreement since the year
2008, even though the State had vowed the renewal of a collective
agreement as of the year 2009
3. Pay
cuts: ERT media workers have suffered wage losses that in many cases
amount to more than 30 percent - constituting the largest pay slashes
enforced throughout the public sector by the State's austerity measures.
The strike is to start on Thursday, June 9,
at 6 am and will end on Friday, June 10, at 6 a.m.
Contact: Journalists' Union of Thrace and Macedonia: [email protected]