Echourouk Group is witnessing a social crisis and a wave of anger among its journalists and workers, due to the administration’s non-payment of the journalists’ dues for more than a year. Consequently, some of them asked for the financial settlement of this situation, especially that they have remained without any livelihood for a long time.
The group management, one of the largest media centres in Algeria, turned to the arbitrary expulsion of journalists from their work and it even banned them from entering the headquarters of the newspaper, while intimidating the rest of them, as punishment for those who dared and asked for their entitlements.
One of the dismissed journalists, Ridha Mellah, posted on Facebook: ”The suffering of Mellah and his colleagues in Echourouk Group is not very different from his fellow journalists from other media."
In this context, the head of the trade union confederation of productive powers, Maalal Raouf, said regarding the current situation of media: “We know very well that the journalists are oppressed by two institutions: the media that humiliates them and deprives them of their most basic social rights, like their monthly wage, a collective agreement, as well as, other labour rights, which are guaranteed by the constitution. Secondly, the government that deprives them of the freedom of expression, in light of the total absence of the labour inspectorates, which should be protecting the workers’ rights. "
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