The editorial board of Repubblica expresses solidarity and closeness to Usigrai and to his colleagues at Rai on strike to demand their rights.
What is happening on public television concerns everyone: we are faced with corporate and editorial policies that humiliate independent trade union representatives, which aim to divide the editorial staff and reduce the cost of work, and which reduce the spaces for freedom of information with censorship and mystification.
Finally, we witness the attempt to sabotage a strike by a supposed union acronym directly emanating from Rai governance and the government.
Anyone who cares not only about independent, quality journalism, but about the health of a democracy as a whole, can only be dismayed in front of this depressing spectacle put on by the top management of Rai, upon government input.
Techniques for exercising power, control and manipulation which unfortunately refer to a past that, evidently, we have never really left behind.
