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Call to strike Thursday on the France 24 news channel

2021-11-12T19:38:20.909Z


Employees are particularly demanding the establishment of "a plan to reduce insecurity" for freelancers and "guarantees of benevolent management".


The tone is rising within the international news television channel France 24 where a strike notice was filed Friday for Thursday, November 18, AFP learned from the organizers of the movement.

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Part of the editorial staff of France 24 meeting in a general meeting on Friday approved by

"a large majority"

the filing of a strike notice scheduled for Thursday, told AFP a CGT union delegate from France Médias Monde, who accompanies the organizers of the movement.

A delegation of employees must be received Monday morning by the management of France Médias Monde, a journalist at the heart of the movement told AFP.

A new general assembly, the date of which has not yet been set, will be held at the beginning of the week to decide whether or not to maintain the call to strike, she added.

"Profound deterioration in working conditions"

Among the demands made by employees, the

"reorganization of the chain by skills and services"

, the establishment of

"a plan to reduce precariousness"

for freelancers or

"guarantees of a benevolent management"

, identifies the CGT of France Médias Monde in a press release. The angry employees had initiated last Thursday the vote of a motion of no confidence against a part of the leaders of the chain denouncing

"a deep deterioration of (their) working conditions"

.

“Repeated specials without allocating human and financial resources, lack of anticipation, opacity in decision-making, but also a total lack of listening and inclusion of the chain's employees, ended up revealing a system at its end. of breath ”

, they pointed out in an internal press release that AFP was able to consult.

France 24 offers four global continuous information channels (in French, English, Arabic and Spanish), broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (12 hours a day in Spanish) to 444 million households out of the 5 continents.

It has been offering its programs since the end of 2006 and belongs to the France Médias Monde group (which also oversees RFI).

Source: lefigaro

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