RAC1 and RAC 105 staff call for a strike this Friday and denounce "inadequate treatment of workers"

BarcelonaThe leading broadcaster in Catalonia, RAC1, will experience its first strike day in history this Friday if no last-minute agreement is reached to prevent it. This is what the workers have decided, who in a statement criticize "the direction of the company's drift," while demanding "a change in the management model." The mobilization is the response, as they explain, to "months of discontent caused by a management style that the staff considers based on pressure, lack of trust, and inadequate treatment of workers." The trigger has been a dismissal from the management area, which the works council demands be reversed. The stoppage, which will be accompanied by a mobilization at the foot of the Torre Godó at 12 noon, also affects the sister music radio station, RAC105.

But beyond this specific labor issue, it is also pointed out that "the situation has been aggravated by a negotiation for the new collective agreement in which the management had rejected a large part of the improvements proposed by the workers' representatives, both in terms of salary and recognition of professional functions." The tensions have broken the negotiation of the new collective agreement. With Friday's stoppage, the staff demands the replacement of the current management, the re-hiring of the dismissed worker, an assessment of psychosocial risks, the recovery of "a management model based on respect, trust, and participation," and social and economic improvements to the agreement, in addition to "recognition and remuneration for the functions that many workers have been developing for years." Eulàlia Carbonell has been the general manager of the Grupo Godó stations since 2023.