“We are going to battle as one”: Three days following the announcement of the appointment of Yulia Shmalov-Berkovic, former member of the Knesset and chairman of the Second Authority, to the place of CEO of Information 13 – the corporate’s workers formally introduced as we speak (Sunday) a few labor dispute. The employees’ protest comes within the shadow of a harsh and unprecedented letter despatched final week by virtually the entire firm’s journalists to the board headed by Aile de Pau. Now, as a part of the announcement of a labor dispute, Information 13 workers will be capable of begin a strike beginning on July 1.
The uproar surrounding the appointment of Shmalov-Berkovic, who was a member of the Knesset on behalf of “Kadima” and beforehand additionally based the Israeli channel within the Russian language and served because the CEO of the “Vesti” newspaper, was sparked by the cruel letter signed by the overwhelming majority of Information 13 journalists. “Her deliberate appointment , which was authorised this morning in a short dialogue, is so invalid and far-fetched – that an inevitable query arises, whether or not the corporate’s board of administrators consciously acted in opposition to its enterprise and public curiosity, in a manner that in apply serves the pursuits of those that want to hurt it,” it says, “the undersigned take into account it their obligation to warn that the transfer you “Movilim endangers the steadiness of Information 13 in an unprecedented manner and should trigger the home to break down on its occupants in a short while.” The letter was signed by distinguished skills of the corporate, together with Udi Segal, Hila Korah, Tamar Ish Shalom, Raviv Drucker and Almog Booker.
In the identical letter, Information 13 workers claimed that Shmalov-Berkovic was not professionally certified to move the information firm, and that because the chairman of the second authority she acted immediately in opposition to Information 13 (or previously in opposition to Information 10): “It’s tough to consider an individual who confirmed extra open hostility to ‘Information 10/13′”. The letter additionally claims that she is unfit for the place as a consequence of her allegedly offensive attitudes in the direction of ladies, which she expressed previously as a member of the Knesset: “Shamalov-Berkowitz’s public statements have greater than as soon as delivered to mild darkish worldviews concerning ladies’s rights and others “. It is usually claimed that Shmalov-Berkovic has a relationship with a board member on the information firm, Avraham Natan.
At present, in a joint announcement to the Information 13 committee – headed by financial commentator Matan Khodorov – and the group of female and male journalists, it’s written that “We’ve got introduced a labor dispute on the information firm, so if essential, we are able to take organizational measures in early July – and battle as one physique in opposition to the appointment. We intend to behave With all of the means at our disposal in opposition to the disgraceful choice of the board of administrators, to nominate as CEO of the information firm an ineligible candidate for the place, whose appointment is tainted with a critical violation of affairs. As well as, so long as we don’t obtain an enough and speedy response to our enchantment to the authorized advisor to the federal government, we’ll enchantment to the Excessive Courtroom so as to shield Information 13 journalists from the intense risks to their skilled future and freedom of the press, inherent on this invalid appointment.”
In the meantime, as we speak the journalists’ group additionally contacted the authorized advisor to the federal government – and requested her to cease the appointment of Shmalov-Berkovic. “The appointment of Yulia Shmalov-Berkovic constitutes a disproportionate and unreasonable violation of the needs of the Second Authority Regulation, a extreme and disproportionate violation of the liberty of the press and thereby the foundations of democracy, a extreme – and probably deadly – violation of the non-public and collective rights of the general public working on the information firm, in addition to conduct Prohibited and unreasonable in relation to decision-making procedures and the accountability of the information firm’s board of administrators within the aforementioned choice and in his conduct on the best way to it,” they wrote there.
The group’s utility to the Ombudsman additionally states that “the order of labor and the standing of the search committee that performed what was seen as a hasty process to pick out a director and editor-in-chief just isn’t clear. Nothing is thought regarding her strategies of labor, the variety of her conferences, the minutes of her conferences, the dates of her conferences, the situation of her conferences, the methods of submitting nominations to her and the transparency of her conduct.” The group additional defined that “Yulia Shmalov-Berkovic’s relationship with media modifying ended a few years in the past, So long as it existed. She was by no means a senior journalist and she or he just isn’t an energetic journalist in any respect. She lacks any expertise working in a serious media outlet or a background as a senior editor or in any respect, not even shut. This level of not assembly eligibility circumstances for the place additionally signifies that her choice is unreasonable and the choice ought to be annulled.”
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