Swiss TXT staff gives up fight against regionalization

At a staff meeting, the Swiss TXT operating committee decides to stop resisting the regionalization of teletext services.

In March, SRG announced that it would
Swiss TXT's Biel site and to relocate the service in future to
Zurich, Geneva and Lugano. The decision was met with
staff have met with little approval. The operating committee of the
Teletext editorial offices called for a multimedia center in Bern or
Biel. Swiss TXT staff are now giving up the fight against the
regionalization. According to a report by SDA
at a staff meeting on Thursday. SRG is on
the proposals for a multimedia center were never received, the
Teletext employees in a press release. The planning work
On the contrary, the regionalization process has proceeded so quickly,
that the staff are now faced with a virtual fait accompli. In the
SRG at least made a few concessions in the letter of July: Biel should
provisionally with Management, Human Resources, Finance, Communication,
Marketing and IT will remain the main location with a total of 41 positions.
The 47 editorial positions of the teletext service, on the other hand, will be
planned to be relocated to the regional language TV studios. This
The company commission's struggle to find a solution to the
to this. As a side effect, however, the position of the editorial offices
has been weakened, the press release continues. The
The Operations Committee now wants to work towards acceptable conditions for the
employees affected by the move.

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