During this day the workers of La Red mobilized in rejection of the massive dismissals that the television signal has suffered this week.
To remember that the station is on a strike by its officials that has lasted 45 days, the main argument being the non-payment of their salaries. The signal crisis has led to the resignation of the former CEO, Victor Gutierrezand that of one of its main faces, Edward Sources.
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On July 21, the head of the journalistic investigation area of La Red, Mauricio Weibel, wrote on his Twitter account: “Mass layoffs in La Red”; later it would be known that there were 45 people detached from the station.
Manifestation
The workers who continue in the signal protested this Friday for the dismissals of their former colleagues, using batucadas, canvases and also demanding the payment of back wages.
Through a statement that had access radio dna They expressed: “With impotence and pain, the workers of La Red saw yesterday how 45 colleagues were fired after long months of agony and uncertainty. Since December 2021, the Chilean Television Company has repeatedly failed to comply with its labor obligations, leaving unpaid contributions pensions, health contributions, loan installments from the Los Andes Compensation Fund that were deducted from the payroll and, even worse, in recent months, delaying or simply not paying workers’ salaries and fees”.
“It is necessary to point out that the massive dismissal we suffered was carried out ad-portas of the union immunity that begins today, July 22, when a collective bargaining with the company began. On the other hand, the Union is considering taking Compañía Chilena de Televisión SA to trial for these irregularities through a lawsuit that represents all the channel workers who wish to join it,” they added. .
The main ones indicated in the protests are the executive director of the channel, Marcelo Pandolfo and the owner of the holding company Albavisión -where La Red belongs- Angel Remigio Gonzalezto solve the economic problems that the station is going through.
