NTU employees voted no confidence in Alasania

Zurab Alasania

Zurab Alasania

Since Zurab Alasania took over the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) (Read more: Zurab Alasania. How to Kill a Central TV Channel? ), employees have repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with his policies. Now, the matter has reached the point of open confrontation, in which the Prosecutor General's Office is being asked to act as an arbitrator: the media outlet's employees are demanding its intervention to investigate what they deem to be sabotage by the general director. The channel's primary trade union organization stated that dissatisfaction primarily stems from the lack of open discussion of programming policy, the channel's concept, and the broadcast schedule, as well as the cancellation of many in-house programs.

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According to NTU representatives, "The channel's reorganization, which effectively began with the arrival of the current management, is being conducted unprofessionally, undemocratically, in violation of the law, and without open social dialogue... In the year since the previous conference, where the administration's work was deemed unsatisfactory, the situation has worsened." There are also claims of violations of labor laws, occupational safety, and other requirements set forth in the Law of Ukraine. Several NTU branches have now joined the central body's decision, supporting the demand for the CEO's resignation.

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