LJUBLJANA, Oct 4 (Hina) - The strike of Slovene journalists thatstarted on Sunday, overshadowing the victory of the Centre-Right atyesterday's parliamentary elections with Monday's newspaper issuesreduced in content, will continue
until employers agree to thecompromise solution offered by the journalists' union, representativesof the Slovene Journalists' Trade Union told Hina on Monday.
LJUBLJANA, Oct 4 (Hina) - The strike of Slovene journalists that
started on Sunday, overshadowing the victory of the Centre-Right at yesterday's
parliamentary elections with Monday's newspaper issues reduced in content,
will continue until employers agree to the compromise solution offered by the
journalists' union, representatives of the Slovene Journalists' Trade Union
told Hina on Monday.The union will not give up on its demands to sign a separate collective
agreement for professional journalists guaranteeing minimal legal and social
standards.
Since midnight on Saturday the STA press agency has been releasing only
road and weather reports and a statement about the reasons of the strike. The
agency has released only official election results of the state election
commission.
The strike was not joined by the commercial TV station POP-TV, whose
reporters expressed verbal solidarity with the journalists' union, stating that
they would not go on strike but exercise their constitutional right to
work.
The TV station is owned by foreign capital, as is the "Finance" daily
which has not joined the strike either.