The Facts staff went on strike for an hour
The Facts editorial team took a one-hour break on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to perhaps persuade Tamedia’s management to agree to a severance plan. The Facts staff is still waiting for a severance plan following the magazine’s closure.
On Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m., the Facts workforce sat down for an hour. They are calling on the management of Tamedia to take their demands for a decent and negotiated social plan seriously. The media union Comedia wrote in a press release that Facts employees had already twice demanded negotiations with the management for a social plan. However, Tamedia has only agreed to a meeting on Tuesday evening. The staff of the news magazine Facts now fear that the social plan negotiations will be put on the back burner. For this reason, the staff called on the publisher not to hold non-binding talks but to enter into serious negotiations. According to an inquiry by Werbewoche, Tamedia is making concessions to the employees by, among other things, extending the notice periods or paying salary compensation for a maximum of eight months. Tamedia's press officer, Christoph Zimmer, also commented on the unions' accusations that the publisher had set a very short deadline for Facts employees to participate. A longer deadline would have had the disadvantage that Facts would have had to continue production. The affected employees would have been uncertain about their professional future for the entire period and would not have known whether they should accept any new job offers.
