At 6:31 a.m., ZDF reports on Twitter: “Our morning magazine is currently on strike and has to be cancelled.” The journalist Dunja Hayali also writes: “That
Criticism is mounting on social networks that both broadcasters are providing insufficient information about the current situation. There they want to know where and until when the strike will take place and demands current broadcast information – but both broadcasters are keeping a low profile.
More information is available from the media union of the Association of Radio, Film and Television Producers (VRFF). There it says in explanation: “As with the ARD broadcasters recently, there is not really anything moving in the wage negotiations at ZDF either. That is why the VRFF-ZDF is also going on a warning strike together with the DJV and verdi unions! From 3 a.m. to At 10.30 a.m. the employees will stop their work. There will be food and warm drinks in front of the ZDF high-rise building. The VRFF, the media union at federal level, as well as the individual company groups, declare their unlimited solidarity with the ZDF warning strikers!”
On the websites of the German Association of Journalists (DJV) and Verdi, there is currently nothing to be found about the ongoing strike. According to the VRFF, however, the work stoppage will last for the entirety of today’s broadcasting time and – apart from the news – there will be no current content to see.
