The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

The strike at L'Equipe continues, no newspaper Friday

2021-01-14T19:55:54.212Z


No exit from the crisis in sight at L'Equipe  : the benchmark sports daily will remain absent from newsstands on Friday, on the 7th day of a historic strike against the elimination of about fifty positions, we learned on Thursday from unions and management. To read also: The management of "The Team" justifies the reductions of positions The inter-union (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, etc.) has decided to renew f


No exit from the crisis in sight at

L'Equipe

 : the benchmark sports daily will remain absent from newsstands on Friday, on the 7th day of a historic strike against the elimination of about fifty positions, we learned on Thursday from unions and management.

To read also: The management of "The Team" justifies the reductions of positions

The inter-union (SNJ, SNJ-CGT, etc.) has decided to renew for 24 hours the call to strike launched on January 8.

This call can

"be suspended at any time"

, remind the unions in an email sent to management.

They demand the suspension of the job protection plan (PSE) unveiled in the fall and a meeting with "a representative of the Amaury Group (owner of the Team) or a mediator".

The incriminated PSE provides for the elimination of around fifty posts, including 47 journalist posts, within the SAS L'Equipe (the daily, the magazine,

Vélo Magazine

and the weekly

France football

, in the process of becoming monthly) which employs 350 people.

A dozen new jobs are planned in parallel to strengthen the Internet offer and increase paid digital subscriptions.

Goal ?

Achieve 5 million euros in savings and avoid 6 million losses in 2021, in a context of falling paper sales made worse by the health crisis and the end of sports competitions in the spring.

On the editorial side,

"'small sports' will be treated less, an astonishing choice three years before the Olympic Games in Paris,"

staff representatives indignantly in a text published Thursday on a Mediapart blog.

Improved starting conditions

The project also provides

"explicitly to 'lower the sails'"

on the cover of 9 Ligue 1 clubs, on the

"French 2nd division Championship but also the Top 14 rugby"

, etc., they write.

What

"exasperate"

employees subjected to several

"restructurings"

in recent years.

Faced with the discontent, the management proposed improved starting conditions, but still considered insufficient.

It also proposed an alternative to the PSE, a modified version of a draft collective performance agreement (CPA) rejected this summer by the unions, with a 5% wage cut until the end of 2024 at the latest and the abandonment of 10 days of RTT.

"The editorial staff of the Team is the best paid on the market,"

explained the general manager of the Team, Jean-Louis Pelé, this Thursday in the columns of

Le Figaro

.

Not enough to calm the troops of which he

"conceals"

, according to the unions,

"the special working conditions"

, especially at weekends and at night.

Source: lefigaro

All business articles on 2021-01-14

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-01T11:00:53.371Z

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.