Overview
- More than 80 outsourced journalists and radio staff voted unanimously to begin a strike on Monday, June 15, to protest repeated late pay and missing benefits.
- Workers say the Fundac failed to deposit June salaries on time, omitted nearly a year of FGTS payments, withheld meal allowances and deducted child support that was not passed to beneficiaries.
- An interventora told employees that Fundac is effectively insolvent and a São Paulo court has appointed a judicial administrator to the foundation while the STF says it has paid Fundac under its contracts and barred the group from new bids.
- The stoppage threatens transmissions of court sessions and institutional programming on TV Justiça and Rádio Justiça and raises concern that outstanding labor claims may be left unpaid when Fundac’s contract ends later this year and a new procurement is enacted.
- Unions are pursuing legal remedies and warn the dispute exposes a long pattern of complaints against Fundac after about nine years of service to the court and puts more than half of the court’s communications team at financial risk.