Broadcast journalists returned to radio and television last night, ending an II-day strike and news blackout on the air waves. They won a symbolic victory but not the 25 percent wage increase granted their newspaper colleagues, at least for the time being.
The Broadcast Authority, a quasi-governmental agency, claimed it was bound by a Cabinet decision not to grant State employes raises in excess of 12.5 percent. That is only half of what the newspaper journalists received from the publishers after a two-day strike last week. But the Broadcast Authority issued a statement “reaffirming implementation of equality on a professional and wage level for journalists in the electronic media with their print colleagues.”
Asked today if he could assure the broadcast journalists that they will be given the additional 12.5 percent hike after a three month negotiating period, the Authority’s director general, Yitzhak Livni replied; “I expect we shall recommend to the Education Minister to give such a raise, but it is within his powers.”
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