Employees voted, Tuesday, a critical motion of the strategy of the management of the newspaper and ask for hiring in the service of publishing.
by Aude Dassonville
The Parisian closure threatened to be disrupted, Tuesday, November 15, due to a strike voted in the early afternoon. By 80 votes for (13 against and 8 abstentions), the employees of the daily newspaper gathered in the general meeting (originally scheduled for November 10) wished to show their support for their edition colleagues who had decided the same morning get on strike.
In a motion, the latter explain rejecting the management plan, which they consider “instability factor” and which will according to them “weigh down the workload”. For several weeks, the publishing service has been subject to an audit, employees claiming hires (to reach “a workforce of forty-eight perennial positions”, against forty-four today) in order to bring together “good” working conditions and carry out “a quality newspaper”.
More generally, mobilized employees are concerned about “general impoverishment”, “both in wages and in the content that we are asked to produce,” said a journalist. On Tuesday, in the evening, an interview between the union organizations SGJ-FO, SNJ, SNJ-CGT, SGLCE-CGT, SNPEP-FO and management was hoped. The movement is supposed to last until Wednesday noon, when a new general meeting will be held.
A first general meeting was held on October 11, at the end of which a first motion had already been voted, unanimously. Hiring requests were expressed there, that management had rejected a few days later.