AND war of numbers and nerves in Rai, after the journalists’ strike last Monday which, despite thehigh adhesiondid not prevent two news programs out of three to go (somehow) on air, splitting the editorial offices. In a climate of controversy and suspicions, they were circulated yesterday different numbers from those provided by Usigrai. Numbers that appear to come from UniRai, the right-wing new union that boycotted the abstention.
And if for Usigrai the strike would have involved the 75.5% of workers, with peaks of 83% in TgRthe “counterdata” sets the bar low 56%. A result obtained by calculating the abstention among the entire Rai workforce (and therefore also counting illnesses and holidays) and not just those present. The “recount” also reports smaller numbers than those provided by Usigrai: the 30% at Tg1, 39 at Tg2 and 66 at Tgr. But also significant absences at Rainews (60%) at Tg3 (84%). Then the workers of the journalistic programs of the DayTime and Insights departments are added.
These numbers, what Usigrai disputes, claiming that many precarious workers work in those programs and always find it difficult to go on strike.
Usigrai, who proclaimed the strike as part of a package of five days of abstention, giving it political significance, goes further. And so yesterday he rode the hypothesis of an alleged order to go on air anyway, which would have been imparted by the leaders of Viale Mazzini to the directors of the various newspapers. Is that Gian Marco Chiocci (Tg1), Antonio Preziosi (Tg2) And Paolo Petrecca (Rainews24)they would have carried out by organizing shifts and find journalists, just to make the strike fail. At the top levels, where the climate of showdown is also perceived, the CEO of Rai, Roberto Sergio, has already assured that he will respond to the accusations in thehearing in the Supervisory Committeescheduled for tonight, which promises to be hot.
“And in any case let it not be said that the strike failed» points out Usigrai’s secretary, Daniele Macheda, worried about the effect produced by the broadcast of the news, which partially neutralized the impact of the strike. In the near future l‘Usigrai will not proclaim others: the pre-election period does not allow this. On the other side, that of the new union UniRai which had invited members not to strike, the tones are now triumphalistic: «We have made history» says the secretary Francesco Palese.
Mutual accusations are wasted. Usigrai talks about precepting journalists and violation of basic rules. UniRai denounces the excessive zeal of the Cdr who would have applied a working time (7 hours and a quarter) which in fact is never respected in order to reduce coverage. And he points out that in any case the news programs were not broadcast with a lower workforce than that of the holidays.
In fact the editorial offices that went on strike en bloc were those of Tg3 And the regional onesexcept Puglia and Molise. In this regard, yesterday the editorial assembly of Tgr Puglia dissociated itself from the methods with which the two editions of the Gr news were broadcast, speaking of «forcing»given that, given the presence in the editorial office of only five journalistsin addition to the editor-in-chief, There were 16 journalists on strike.
He also moved forward with what happened in Rai the political conflict. “I don’t think there is any obsessive control” said the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano (FdI), regarding Usigrai’s accusations. And he reserved a jab for that union: «The first thing they have to answer is what happened to them one hundred thousand euros where there was also my contribution, having been a member.” A reference to an investigation into alleged shortfalls in the union’s coffers.
For the blue group leader in the Chamber, Maurizio Gasparri“was the right to work established» and «we have gone from a late-Soviet situation, with a single union, obviously beached on the positions of the left, to the presence, which is completely normal, of multiple union subjects». A thought substantially shared by the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa: «The truth – he states – is that there is one resistance to a rebalancing of attendance in Rai».
On the left the guard remains very high: «The show of strength against the strike is the demonstration that the public service, Rai is now increasingly TeleMeloni» states the group leader of the Greens and Left Alliance, Peppe De Cristofaro. «Internally in Rai, the publications are not just journalistic, they are real tested…» is the ironic comment of Fiorello at VivaRaiDue.
