You Portuguese journalists started a strike this Thursday, the first of its kind in the country since 1982, to demand an increase in salaries and denounce the precarious working conditions of the press.
The strike coincides with the announcement this week of a plan to lay off 20 employees at Global Media, one of the country’s main communications groups, due to the “complicated financial situation”.
The Lusa news agency did not publish any news as of midnight. The country’s Union of Journalists stated that more than 20 media outlets were affected by the strike.
“Job insecurity, alongside low wages in the sector, is a serious obstacle to the full development of the journalism profession”, stated the Journalists’ Union, which called for the mobilization.
“A journalist who cannot pay his bills or have a minimum of job security is a journalist conditioned in the exercise of his work”, adds the union.
The strikers demand, among other measures, salary increases to face inflation and respect labor laws so that overtime is paid.
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