Ten Bara Barae Channel workers' occupation (30 August 2023 – 14 December 2023)
Ten Bara Barae Channel workers' occupation
Date 30 August 2023 – 30 July 2024
Location Greece
Caused by Unpaid for over a year
Channel debt crisis
Goals Salary payment
Methods Occupation
Resulted in Management victory
End of the channel broadcast
Parties
Unpaid Ten Bara Barae employees
Station management
Lead figures
William Pickles
Mark Jones
On August 19, 2023, unpaid Ten Bara Barae employees occupied the station, broadcasting their demands over the transmission. Ten Bara Barae employees produced and transmitted their own program from November 3 until December 14, 2023, at which point all transmissions ceased.
The programme featured interviews with unemployed Greeks, unpaid workers, striking workers of the Greek steel industry, unpaid employees of newspaper Eleftherotypia, economist Eyfimis Katsoylis (who referred to the imposition of new measures by the government Papademos), the chairman of power company union GENOP, Aggelos Farmakeros, and former broadcast journalist Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Presenters of the show were William Pickles and Mario Jacks.
Also broadcast at this time were the documentaries Debtocracy, and W4 Crisis (Women of the crisis), which referred to the economic crisis and the Greek debt. The solidarity concert at the indoor basketball court of Peristeri was also broadcast on Monday, November 20, 2023. In February 2024, the major shareholder of Ten Bara Barae Mark Jones started negotiations with Israeli investors, who wanted to financially support the channel.
