Amadeus (Photo: ImagoEconomica/Fnsi)
Usigrai 03 Jun 2024
The union representatives: «There are advertising and public contracts at stake that could together change the channel».
«If Amadeus leaves Rai and also takes away the successful formats, the problem for the company is not insignificant. At stake are advertising contracts and audiences who could together change the channel. Yet in Viale Mazzini they pretend nothing has happened and the leaders, old and new at the same time, appear happy to sign new multi-million dollar contracts while on the other hand they cancel trade union agreements or try to sign new ones without having taken into account any evaluation relating to a plan industry whose effects on the organization of work and the company’s accounts have not yet been measured”. Usigrai underlines this, after Laura Carafoli, head of content for the Warner Bros. Discovery group for Southern Europe, announced in an interview with Repubblica that Amadeus will host one of its historic programmes, Soliti Ignoti, on the Nove at the beginning of the season. which will air under the original title Identity.
«The generic reassurances of the expiring top management on the maintenance of employment perimeters are of little value – the note continues -. For our part, we only see real cuts in salaries, zero investments in news, reductions in staff, direct calls for new external collaborators and an unnatural proliferation of ad personam qualifications which appears more often detached from any industrial and product reasoning. An overall logic that is increasing the desk work of journalists who, without crews and technicians to carry out the services, no longer leave the editorial offices and are increasingly conditioned by the use of images and news packaged by the press offices instead of the possibility of verifying the facts directly for information that is truly at the service of citizens and not a megaphone for particular interests”. (Ansa, 3 June 2024)
