Imprint and Comedia: "A strong signal from the Tages-Anzeiger editorial team"
In a joint press release, Comedia and Impressum congratulated the Tagi editors for their protest on Tuesday against Tamedia’s planned job cuts. The cost-cutting plans of what is arguably Switzerland’s wealthiest media publisher showed a complete lack of responsibility.
In a joint press release on Tuesday, the journalists' association Impressum and the media union Comedia congratulated the Tages-Anzeiger editorial team for the "successful action" against job cuts in Zurich. According to them, more than 200 journalists, photographers and technical editorial staff took part in a rally at the Tages-Anzeiger editorial office on Tuesday lunchtime.
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The plans of the largest and probably richest media publisher in Switzerland to make further savings at the expense of staff after many years of high profits would contradict any social and journalistic responsibility, the press release states. It is also difficult to see how the high journalistic quality that is absolutely necessary for the Tages-Anzeiger to hold its own against the free press and the Internet can be achieved in future with fewer journalists.
The associations are also calling on Tamedia to seriously consider the proposals submitted by staff during the consultation process. These could substantially reduce the redundancies. They are also calling for a social plan - Tamedia-Verlag posted a profit of more than one hundred million francs in 2008. It was not the managers who earned this money, but the entire workforce. Including those colleagues who are now to be made redundant.
" Mass redundancies: Tagi editorial team held protest rally
" Bund editorial team defends itself against staff cuts
The plans of the largest and probably richest media publisher in Switzerland to make further savings at the expense of staff after many years of high profits would contradict any social and journalistic responsibility, the press release states. It is also difficult to see how the high journalistic quality that is absolutely necessary for the Tages-Anzeiger to hold its own against the free press and the Internet can be achieved in future with fewer journalists.
The associations are also calling on Tamedia to seriously consider the proposals submitted by staff during the consultation process. These could substantially reduce the redundancies. They are also calling for a social plan - Tamedia-Verlag posted a profit of more than one hundred million francs in 2008. It was not the managers who earned this money, but the entire workforce. Including those colleagues who are now to be made redundant.
