SSM will not accept SRG savings package
The Swiss Media Workers' Union (SSM) does not intend to simply accept the SRG's cost-cutting package. It will support the initial cost-cutting measures only as long as they do not lead to staff or program cuts.
The Swiss Syndicate of Media Professionals (SSM) will not simply accept the SRG savings package. The union supports the savings measures "insofar as they do not lead to staff or program cuts", as stated in a press release on Tuesday. However, the planned wage freeze at SRG is "quite demotivating", said SSM President Barbara Büttner when asked by SDA. The employees are already unsettled by the media convergence project and the savings measures of CHF 12 to 20 million contained therein.
Büttner is also hoping for a "positive signal from the Federal Council". It must give the green light for a fee increase after 2010 or online advertising for SRG in order for something to change on the revenue side. If this does not happen, there are fears of redundancies.
Büttner is also hoping for a "positive signal from the Federal Council". It must give the green light for a fee increase after 2010 or online advertising for SRG in order for something to change on the revenue side. If this does not happen, there are fears of redundancies.
