SRG adheres to targets for new collective labor agreement
The SRG Board of Directors has decided to stick to the goals it has set for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The SRG wants a good, modern CBA and is open to further negotiations with the union.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the SRG Board of Directors dealt in detail with the outcome of the CLA negotiations. This was announced by SRG on Thursday. It had discussed both the report of the SRG negotiating delegation and the statement of the union Schweizer Syndikat Medienschaffender SSM. Now, the board of directors has decided to stick to the CLA goals it has set: The CLA should contain "the simplest possible rules, uniform provisions and reasonable allowances that are customary in the industry".
SRG is open to further negotiations. Further talks would make sense, including discussions about moderate savings and necessary changes to the CLA, the statement added. The positions would be far apart after five rounds of negotiations, and a consensus within a useful period would seem challenging. Even a CLA-less situation as of January 1, 2013 cannot be ruled out for SRG. Should it actually come to that, SRG as a reliable employer would leave the employment conditions of the current CLA unchanged for all employees in 2013 - also for new employees joining SRG in 2013, the statement concluded. During this time, SRG would resume negotiations for a new CBA.
