For shrinkage and obsolescence Music Ensembles ERT and especially her National Symphony Orchestra The Union of National Broadcasting Orchestra and Choir Workers has been talking about this for several days now.

The reason for the protests of the union, which received reports of support from Greek conductors and musicians, is the fact that in early November, the ERT management did not automatically renew the labor contracts of musicians working with this status in the National Symphony Orchestra, but decided to partially limit specific positions. re-audit existing musicians, make it “incompatible” for those who have other working relationships with the state, and reduce the annual productions of the Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra.

Such as explain “K” musicians of the orchestra, of its 105 instrumental positions, 51 are occupied by permanent employees, and of the remaining 54, only 22 are occupied by project contracts. With the new ERT solution, these 22 positions are reduced by seven, and musicians must re-audit to fill them. In addition, the orchestra’s number of concerts has been reduced from 33 per year to 24.

In any case, according to with information “K” ERT management’s new decision is part of an effort to more equitably address the chronic problems of distorted and irrational distribution of contract work across the organization’s three musical ensembles. In particular, a total of 28 positions have now been announced in the project contract, of which the Symphony Orchestra accounts for 15 (compared to the original 22), however, another 6 relate to the Contemporary Music Orchestra (which previously had only 3), and another 7 will be to supply the ERT Choir, in which so far not a single organizational gap has been covered by a project contract. As for the reduction of the Orchestra’s works, this is done, according to the same information, in the direction of what is really possible.

It is also expected that after the respective contracts expire in the spring, under which the acclaimed principal musician Giorgos Petru was the conductor of the ERT National Symphony Orchestra until May, the positions of directors of all three Ensembles will be announced.