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Paid four cents and threatened journalists rebel

A survey on the unacceptable conditions in which young people work freelance and casual workers born the campaign 'Do not work for less than 50 €', taking example from the strike of the Africans against the foremen

Rome - Journalists are targeted by the editors who are afraid of losing their jobs if they ask for decent conditions and respect for their rights. Paid just two or three euro to article by important national newspapers. Paid or not paid at all for pennies on rigaggio line in the southern regions where he writes about mafia. It denounced the dramatic truth through the campaign "do not work for less than 50 €" which has collected the testimonies of some young journalists. A bleak picture emerges from Trieste to the tip of the boot.

The board promoted by "Terrelibere.org" trying to break through the wall of silence that surrounds the precariousness and exploitation of employees in newsrooms. "Another year to € 200 per month I do not know if I can stand," say the journalists who have decided to write their own history. And again: "paid for 10 years 3 € gross per piece (2.50 € payroll) and not only short jumps also real services after working all day. In ten years only one substitution, "or" I worked until the ninth month of pregnancy with the PC on the knees because the chair was uncomfortable and my belly bumping against my desk. And I've been told by my bosses: I can not pierce a piece of news because you're giving birth. "Many times you work without even knowing if and how much you will be paid. This situation is transforming in the Italian journalists 'stuff for the rich' because only those with a wealthy family behind that covers all expenses can afford to be a journalist.

"I do not work for less than 50 euro" is the campaign of the journalists who refuse to write for free. ( http://www.terrelibere.org/ tag / four-to five-). It is inspired by the example of Africans in Castel Volturno laborers went on strike against the foremen with this slogan. The objectives of the campaign are to have a guaranteed minimum payment to cover the news, deadlines for the payment, clear standards and rules for partnerships, to join a union with a small share for freelance and temporary workers, union representation for employees in the newsroom. But the purpose is also to raise public awareness on the fact that many newspapers, websites and information containers are manufactured using the press, with contracts from hungry or without a shred of contract for years.

The campaign stems from an investigation of Italian journalism eBook, titled "Four to Five. Four cents to five bullets. We tell journalists from threats and exploitation. " The author, Raffaella Cosentino, a freelance journalist, refers to cases of young colleagues threatened by the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria working for 4 cents a line. Their stories are collected in the eBook, with more extensive analysis on the working conditions of freelance. Journalists are compared to African Rosarno laborers, paid a € cassette, and items to oranges, you pay the manufacturer to 6 cents per kilo in the supermarket checkouts as they arrive at a price much higher. Similarly, the 'news of the slaves' working for a few euro while raking in millions of publishers, government grants and advertising.

"It's not a stretch to the demagogic approach between the terms of journalistic insecurity and those of immigrants - says Roberto Natale, president Fnsi, the journalists' union, in the afterword of the eBook - Practice recruitment and payment in hand, our publishers are not entitled to feel offended by the parallel (but then if they offend?). How can we not have reason to complain about our editorial hierarchy, those who every day recruiting arm for the collection of stories, if anyone lives as corporals who spend dawn with the van in the town square. "