Last Tuesday, September 29, Albacete Publishing Company, Inc., publisher of Diario La Tribuna de Albacete, which Promecal SA, holds a majority of the shares of the editor, put into effect the dismissal of four workers of that company, three layout team and one of the printing plant Campollano.
The company has acknowledged, explicitly, the invalidity of the layoffs, which are paying the maximum compensation provided by law, 45 days per year worked, although the amount of compensation varies greatly among affected workers, as their antiques ranging from two to 20 years in the business.
company representatives justified the dismissals by the sharp drop in advertising revenue so far this year, and by understanding that the equipment layout of the Tribune was now "oversized", while they insisted that without these four workers was necessary to endure in the best possible conditions the current economic situation, hoping that it goes back to what the next year.
Given these facts, the committee Company of La Tribuna de Albacete want to state the following:
1) We understand that the equipment layout is not, nor has ever been "oversized." In any case, if you've been, and always has been underutilized. But that is not the responsibility of workers, but of those who should have worried about getting every performance, that is, the company that now makes them pay their own bill.
2) That these layoffs, to lie mainly in the technical area, will impact very negatively on the performance of other teams the newspaper, especially in the editorial and advertising, who are working more directly with them, and whose work will suffer when you create a bottleneck that will hinder the performance, both in quality and quantity of all who make up the staff of The Tribune.
3) On the company's arguments, criticism and concern is not what was said but what is not said. When representatives of the workers asked expressly to hear about the company's immediate plans for addressing the current situation were referred, repeatedly, in the hope that in future, there is an economic recovery pull up advertising and therefore the sector.
The committee understands that the future of company in nearly 25 years, never had been in this situation, can not depend solely on whether or not there are "green shoots" in the English economy or the national and local advertising market. Nor can it be claimed that the staff behave as if nothing had happened, waiting passively to see light at the end of the tunnel.
Clearly the business plan whereby the workers have struggled over the past six, almost seven years, has come where should go. Without wishing to engage in polemics, it is clear that it is time to be self-critical when large investments are not reflected in reality, ha renunciado a abrir nuevos campos de actividad en radio y TV, en el resto de la región se ha producido el mayor ERE en medios de comunicación que nunca ha habido en esta comunidad autónoma, no se renuevan contratos, se amortizan puestos de trabajo y cuando al fin, también llega en Albacete el momento de unos despidos que ni entendemos, ni compartimos.
En definitiva, no podemos seguir como hasta ahora, como si no hubiese pasado nada, ni tampoco podemos ser meros espectadores inertes de lo que pueda venir.
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