Strike of Tamedia Romandie's newsroom

(sda)

At the same time as the start of the World Cup against Sweden at 4 pm, dozens of journalists stopped working in Tachi's French-language newsrooms on Tuesday. afternoon. Nearly a hundred strikers gathered in front of the Edipresse tower, accompanied by unions. Some carried banners marked "on strike".

A drafting meeting had decided early in the afternoon, with 88% of the votes, to strike Tuesday from 4 pm to midnight.

According to several journalists Tamedia's management has put pressure on the employees to prevent the strike from taking place.

It was not clear if and what publications would be published on Wednesday. The majority of the "20 minutes" writers decided not to join the labor dispute. They did not feel directly affected, some of them said.

Tamedia Romandie spokesman Patrick Matthey, at the request of the Keystone-SDA agency, said that "this has been organized since the morning".

Tamedia threatened with dismissal by GAV

Tamedia urged employees of "The Morning" and representatives of Imprint to immediately stop the strike. Otherwise, Tamedia may terminate the collective labor agreement (GAV). The action calls into question the existence of the CLA.

Tamedia's management notes that it has been transparent since the beginning of the consultation phase on June 8th. She provided the relevant figures and answered all the questions from the parties involved in constructive meetings.

It was therefore wrong to claim that Tamedia had unilaterally interrupted the dialogue in connection with the change of "The Morning". On June 28, the negotiations phase of the social plan began. Their goal was to take supportive measures that would allow those affected to cushion the consequences of job losses and help them find a new job.

Dismissals should be suspended

The editorial and syndicomom Journalists Association Imprint were on the other hand indignant that Tamedia rejected the proposals of the editorial offices, which should have limited the impact of the planned recruitment of "Le Matin" by the Zurich media.

They ask the group Tamedia that he engage seriously, intensively and without prior exclusion of any solution – including the abandonment of titles – in a process that preserves the diversity of the press French ". In addition, Tamedia will temporarily offer the people concerned the redundancy buy-out since the beginning of June.

41 employees involved

Tamedia plans to end the print edition of "The Morning" at the end of July. 41 employees are at risk of losing their jobs. The media should only be available online and developed with a 15-member editorial team. However, the Sunday paper "Le MatinDimanche" is not affected by the reduction.

Tamedia justified the decision in early June by "the continual losses of the print edition" of "The Morning". In 2017, the paper's deficit amounted to about 6.3 million Swiss francs, compared to 34 million Swiss francs in the last ten years. The Tamedia group made a profit of 170 million francs last year

The Tamedia press group publishes the newspapers "Tribune de Genève", "24 heures", "Le Matin" and "Le Matin Dimanche" in western Switzerland. and the free commuter newspaper "20 minutes".