A strike launched at the regional daily Le Progrès to denounce the working conditions of the editorial staff experienced an "
exceptional
" mobilization on Thursday, according to the journalists' union SNJ.
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The union reports "
86.5% of strikers among CDI journalists, excluding supervisors, on the schedule today
" within the local Ain (91%), Jura (90%) and Rhône (83%) .
And, up to “
100% strikers in many services
” of the daily owned by the Ebra group (Credit Mutuel), according to the same source.
"
It's historic, it's indicative of a real fed up
," said SNJ union representative - majority union - Sandrine Rancy.
The strike aims to denounce the deterioration of the working conditions of journalists, in particular since the "
digital first
" plan implemented in 2018 to bet on the web and video.
"
This plan, which led to the elimination of twenty posts, was undersized and without human and material resources
", denounced Ms. Rancy, pointing to the recent hiring of young journalists subjected according to her to "
double days for 1,800 euros per month
.
"
The + digital first + policy is pushing for a race for audience, clicks, buzz which can be quite questionable: we are journalists, not content producers
", she added.
The strikers are demanding in particular the replacement of positions following departures in conventional rupture to "
return to the target workforce
" of the Digital first plan, as well as salary increases.
The newspaper's management could not be contacted immediately.
The Friday publication of the paper newspaper should be disrupted with editions grouped together for the Jura (1 edition instead of 2), Ain (1 edition instead of 3) and the Rhône (3 editions instead of 6), according to the union which was to be received by management on Friday.
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A similar strike was carried out on March 29 in the newspapers Le Républicain Lorrain, L'Est Républicain and Vosges Matin, owned like Le Progrès by the Ebra group, which owns a total of nine regional press titles.
Nearly three-quarters of journalists from L'Est Républicain and Le Républicain had followed this movement, while participation had been "
very low
" within Vosges Matin, according to the SNJ.
