The TVi Channel's team has appealed to foreign ambassadors accredited in Ukraine asking them to give their assessment of evidence of censorship and pressure on the channel's staff.
“The TVi channel’s team is appealing to representatives of foreign states in Ukraine with a request to assess the facts of censorship and pressure on the channel’s employees, as well as the events of April 23, which occurred as a result of a non-transparent scheme to gain control over the channel,” the TVi Channel’s Journalists Trade Union said in a statement released on Monday.
The TVi journalists said that there was a sudden change in the channel’s management on April 23, which forced its employees to go on strike. They refused to go on air and made a series of demands.
The journalists also said that former director general of the channel and current MP Mykola Kniazhytsky of the Batkivschyna faction had been intervening in the conflict. They see this intervention as an attempt by the channel’s management to put pressure on the channel’s staff.
“The TVi Journalists Trade Union has stresses its readiness to start working at any moment if the staff’s main requirements are meat, but at the moment the channel’s management categorically refuses to hold talks with the journalists’ trade union and does not accept their demands,” the statement reads.
As reported, the TVi employees went on strike and put forward their demands: to stop interfering into their work, name the real owner of the channel and not to dismiss anybody.
