The Council of Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG) did not discuss or express its opinion regarding the proposed Collective Agreement, because the union and the management of the Public Service Broadcaster did not reach an agreement on coefficients for university graduates.
Five members of the Public Service Council voted for this, before the agenda for the jubilee 50th session was determined.
They did, however, adopt RTCG's financial report for the previous year.
According to the president of the RTCG Council, Veselin Drljević, members have nothing to discuss when it comes to the proposed Collective Agreement, "because there is no final agreement." He said that if the union and management reach an agreement, the Council would be happy to honor that agreement.
Vice President of the Council Marijana Camović Velicković asked "if there is nothing to discuss, who submitted the proposal for the collective agreement."
Assistant General Manager for Corporate Affairs Goran Rakočević said that he did not send the proposal on his own initiative and on his own initiative.
"It may not exist today, but it did exist at the time when we sent the draft collective agreement to the Ministry of Finance. In mid-April this year, we received a positive opinion from the Ministry of Finance, which we nominated for the Government session. We expected that the draft collective agreement would be approved, which could later be adopted by the Council. This was withdrawn from the Government session because we received a letter from the trade union stating that they did not approve what we agreed on at that time. We were led into a kind of delusion... We did not count on the circumstances that changed during the previous week," he said.
Camović Velicković said that negotiations were not even held, "but that there were some discussions."
"The union is astonished by the coefficients that have been proposed. The question is whether there is a formal working group that has a text in front of it that it is negotiating. What you said differs from the announcements of the RTCG Employees' Union. Who is misleading us here," asked Camović Velicković.
Rakočević: Negotiations with the Union lasted for months
Rakočević noted that there were negotiations and that they lasted up to several months.
"No one can claim that there were no negotiations. That would be a gross distortion of the truth. That we did not reach an agreement is not true and I stand by that very clearly. We have lost trust because we are not keeping our word. There will be room for the coefficients to increase."
Council member Amina Murić said that there was nothing to discuss, because they had not received the documents, and appealed not to enter into a discussion with Camović Veličković.
Murić repeatedly insulted Camović Veličković during the session, saying that she lacked dignity. She also claimed that the vice president of the RTCG Council works for the interests of private media.
Rakočević said that the OTT platform was important for RTCG in many ways, adding that it was very challenging to prepare it, but also to start operating.
"A completely new medium has been launched from the Public Service. All of our content can be followed on it and it offers endless possibilities in data archiving. What were once major obstacles should now be our advantages. It was especially complex for administrative services to implement such a public procurement. We had record ratings in which we were two or three times more watched than the next competitor."
RTCG revenues 22, expenses 21 million euros
RTCG's revenues, Rakočević said, amounted to 22 million, while expenses exceeded 21 million euros. The profit, he pointed out, amounted to more than a million euros.
"Commercial revenues were 50 percent higher than planned," Rakočević noted.
Camović Velicković asked how much money was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Media.
"We have no insight into how money is spent on promotion and sponsorship. Around 120.000 euros have been spent, and we do not have a structure of those costs... There are many deviations from the financial plan adopted by the Council."
RTCG Director General Boris Raonić said that "every cent is taken care of here."
"A precise analysis of costs is conducted on several levels. We have brought order to that quite a bit... We had people who did not come to work. We also have people who contribute minimally to this house. This is a serious problem that we are facing. I will start taking action when it comes to salary calculations. I will also file criminal charges on this issue... If a manager is ready to sign a payroll at the end of the month for someone who did not work, that is a criminal offense. This type of abuse causes great anxiety in the house."
According to him, the surplus of employees in the Public Service is 20 percent.
"We are trying to strengthen the Public Service's brand... We have an example of a scandal being made in some tabloid press about the allocation of apartments. The building is not finished, nor has the occupancy permit been obtained. No one can have a title deed...", said Raonić.
Members of the RTCG Council adopted the Public Service Broadcasting Company's financial report for the previous year.
During the session, it was said that the Public Service also expects the digitization of VHS tapes, as well as DVDs.
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