The internal war between RTP and the workers’ commission (CT) continues. One of the controversial points now concerns the fact that the CT is opposed to the option of the public television channel to continue to carry out programs that promote gatherings in the countryside of the country, ignoring the pandemic context. Questioned by SOL, the public company guarantees that «RTP has a contingency plan for each program it does abroad» and adds that «all programs are provided by a person responsible for health and safety at work».
A response that does not satisfy the structure it represents to workers when stating that it continues to await clarification from the board of directors.
At stake is the Seven Wonders program, which, according to CT, has been representing for some time, “a cause of concern for RTP workers in general and for those, especially those who work abroad”. And he warns: «There have been several voices (among them, ours) warning against the imprudence of promoting gatherings in locations in the interior of the country, with the curious to come and play, for us, the role of extras pro bono. And there have been several voices that warn that being reckless with the public generally goes hand in hand with being reckless with workers, ”the note reads.
Workers warn that recently, the village of Mora, in the Alentejo – currently the scene of one of the most worrying outbreaks of covid-19 in the country -, welcomed the Rota N2 program, with the same characteristics, and although they affirm that “certainly not it was Rota N2 to take the coronavirus to Mora ”, they now wish“ that I am not bringing it from there either ”, implying that the professionals who were in that location may have possibly been exposed to the virus.
“But such certainties and hopes depend on luck and, playing Russian roulette, no one is lucky all his life. Whoever does not want to be a wolf does not wear his skin », says the Workers’ Commission.
In the same letter, RTP workers also denounce what they consider to be an incorrect reassessment of colleagues who would be included in the group considered at risk. The CT states that the reevaluation of occupational medicine “must comply exclusively with clinical criteria” and that “a doctor does not have to worry about the lack of image reporters or sound technicians or any other profession”.
The Workers’ Committee demands that teleworking be given preference to people included in the risk group, whenever possible, and that, in giving its opinion, occupational medicine must assume in writing the option of maintaining or removing a person at risk group, assuming their responsibilities.
Other conflicts
The possibility of journalist Cândida Pinto could be integrated into the tables again, after she supposedly got a 9,000-euro pass is also causing internal discomfort, SOL learns.
In relation to this matter, the Workers’ Commission says only that “in this regard we questioned the board of directors, until now we have not received any answer”, says the structure to SOL.
The administration of the public channel, on the other hand, guarantees that it is “false”.
It should be recalled that the journalist left SIC in 2018 to end up taking over the team of Maria Flor Pedroso, who has since been removed.
A situation that led the member of the Regulatory Entity for Communication (ERC) João Pedro Figueiredo to express his concern about the instability in the information directions of RTP, in a vote that accompanied the vote on the dismissal of Maria Flor Pedroso’s team . “I observe with great concern the instability that RTP’s information boards have recently incurred in the face of unclear or possibly illegitimate expressions of interest,” he said earlier this year.
The new public television information directorate was eventually led by António José Teixeira and who has Carlos Daniel, Hugo Gilberto and Joana Garcia as deputy information directors.
António José Teixeira had been nominated on January 7 as director of information for public television, 15 days after the ERC had ‘failed’ José José Fragoso’s proposal, which would accumulate this direction with that of programs. In December, RTP had proposed the accumulation of information and program management for RTP1 and RTP Internacional in the hands of José Fragoso, but the media regulator gave a negative opinion.
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