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Santiago de Chile. The President of the Union Organisation, Iván Mezzano, confirmed the dismissals and regretted this decision. He pointed out that audience decrease, and having gone down to fourth place in TV ratings is not a problem of the workers, “ it is a problem of the management staff, which makes the decisions in relation to the channel’s programming.



The leader also criticised the execution of dismissals in spite of the high level of investments in contracts made by the company. “I don’t want to get into the figures these contracts represent for the company, but that these should be paid by the workers seems deplorable to me”



101 dismissals “is the number that was given to us and we are supposed to trust their word. The process is closed today with that number”, said Mezzano, quoting the Executive Director of the Channel, David Belmar.



Criticism in relation to the sale of Channel 13 TV Station



About the Catholic University, which still holds a third of the shares in the broadcasting company, he pointed out: “I am disappointed with the attitude of the Catholic Church and with the University in relation to the sale of the channel, we believe that it was sold at a very low price, considering what it represents. Consequently, the truth is that I would not expect a favourable reaction from them”.



“In this country the workers are highly unprotected, there is a huge lack of balance with the company owners. There are very little tools for the workers to work against this”, he said.



The stage of transformations inside Channel 13 TV station started with the arrival of the new authorities, after the fact that in August 2010, the businessman Andrónico Luksic acquired two thirds of the channel.



Source: Cooperativa.cl





Translation: UNI americas