Mário Cruz / Lusa
Collective dismissal of the 80 Trust In News workers. Union of Journalists reveals request from the insolvency administrator.
A Trust in News (Tin) announced on Friday the collective dismissal of 80 workers do group, dono of titles such as Vision e Guys, asking them to “Continue to work without receiving”today announced the Union of Journalists (SJ).
“The direction of the Journalists Union (SJ) was confronted with the dramatic news of dismissal, Friday, July 25, of all workers of the Trust In News (Tin) group,” reads in a statement today.
According to the union, this “is an outcome that began to draw for months and whose real contours must be cleared in all dimensionsfrom the journalistic, to economic, financial, political and even judicial. ”
In the statement, the SJ points to “posture incomprehensible e intolerable” do insolvency administrator of TIN, which when it presented, in person, the pre-warning of dismissal to the company’s 80 workers, asked “to continue working to keep the titles alive, with the argument of generating revenue, although no guarantee of remuneration is given”.
“It fears the SJ that you are preparing a BALANCE PRICE SALEwithout ‘the inconvenience and the inconvenience’ of people who pay salaries and guarantee rights, ”he says.
According to explains, varying the period of the pre-warning of dismissal of 30 to 75 days, depending on the seniority of each worker, “in the fund, the people to whom the salary of June, and soon July, as well as vacation allowances and meal subsidies of May and June, which is soon, which continue to work without guarantee of retribution. ”
This “to keep a business alive that, we suspect, will be sold ‘to the 25th hour‘”, Warns.
In this sense, the union warns that “all those who accept continuing to work may be helping to Save a negotiation whose contours are not clear right now”.
Additionally, “losing all rights as workers with the dismissal now announced, have no guarantee of being integrated into a company that eventually can be born ”.
“We remember that besides being asked now from people who continue to work without remuneration, which is equivalent to slavery, workers, hoping a redemptive sale, may be contributing to save titles that in the future can be used to make a completely different journalism From what they have done in these years, in which they enhanced the profession and contributed to a more enlightened society, given the rigorous scrutiny that it was greatly covered in journalism in the Tin Group, while having financial capacity, ”warns the SJ.
The union claims to live times when “the fragility of journalism interests many social actors, some of which rejoice in the unemployment of these 80 people.”
“We know that There are many people who want the end of this professionwho does not want to be scrutinated, who wants to lie freely, because he does not work or want a society that is fairer and more equitable, ”he laments.
In this scenario, the trade union structure considers “even more unfortunate and profoundly incomprehensible” than almost two months since it took office, the presidency minister, Leitão Amaro, that protects the media, “has not yet responded to the hearing request requested by SJ shortly after his officialization in office”.
The Judicial Court of the West Lisbon District Chumbed in June the insolvency plan presented by TIN, determining the closure of its activity: “In these terms, I decide not to approve the insolvency plan presented by Trust In News”, reads in a document dated 18 June, to which the Lusa agency had access.
At the time, the shareholder of Tin Luís Delgado told Lusa to intend to appeal the decision that dictated the closure of the company, holding titles such as Vision, Exame, Jornal de Letras, Active, soap operas, more and expensive TV.
“If possible, we will appeal the decision of not approving the insolvency plan that was approved by 77% of creditors,” said the manager.
