Radio France choir interrupts Sibyle Veil's vows

This beginning of the year promises to be complicated for Sibyle Veil. While presenting her wishes to her employees, the patron of Radio France was interrupted in her speech by the group's choir.

Sibyle Veil presented her wishes in the studio 104 of the Maison de la Radio. In a video relayed by the CGT Radio France account, we see it greeted by whistles and laughter, and vuvuzelas are heard. The CEO of Radio France offers people who wish to express themselves, by addressing the choir singers in particular, but no one reacts.

"Slave choir"

She therefore begins her vows, returning to the complicated context and announcing "several important things to tell you". "2019 was a year of great pride, but also of great concern," she says, before being interrupted by the choir.

# Voeux2020 from @SibyleVeil to the employees of #RadioFrance
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The choristers of Radio France sing "Va, pensiero" ("Va, pansy"), or "choir of slaves". In the 3rd quatrain, a large number of group employees seated in the amphitheater stand up and take the air with the choir.

This tune comes from Verdi's opera Nabucco , premiered in 1842 in Milan, which recounts the biblical episode of the slavery of the Jews in Babylon, under King Nebuchadnezzar. When it was created, the Milanese then under Austrian occupation identified with the song of the Hebrew prisoners. The air is often taken up in mobilization contexts. It has also been performed by the singers of the Paris Opera as part of the demonstrations against the pension reform.

"Sibyle, we don't want your plan"

The intervention of the Radio France choir was followed by applause by applause. People then went on stage with posters on which was written "When everything will be private, you will be deprived of everything" , and the room chanted "Sibyle, your plan we don't want it", told SNJ Radio France on Twitter.

"When everything is private, you will be deprived of everything". Some employees go up on stage with panels and vuvuzella. The staff present chants "Sibyle, your plan we don't want it" followed by a song "We all have a job that we like". pic.twitter.com/FtAGBppwmJ

"It is not respectful for those who came to hear the messages I had to announce," reacted Sibyle Veil, before asking the demonstrators to "leave". She finally canceled the ceremony after 30 minutes on stage.

Sibyle Veil knew

“When you change the CEO every three years and the HR manager every year, nobody has experience in the House and the management therefore makes this kind of mistake: going on stage in the middle of a social conflict, when you don't hasn't heard from him in three weeks. What a good idea ! "Commented SNJ Radio France on Twitter.

When you change the CEO every three years and Drh every year, nobody has experience in the House and the management therefore makes this kind of mistake: going on stage in the middle of a social conflict, when you have not heard from for three weeks. What a good idea !

Sibyle Veil “was aware that the ceremony would be disrupted by the choir, but she decided to go anyway. And in the preamble, she proposed to those who wished to speak, "said a spokesman for the CEO to the Parisian .

299 positions deleted

Sibyle Veil sent an email to Radio France employees in the afternoon, relayed by France info. “2019 was a year of contrasts, both that of great pride and that of worry. The president notably said that the government wants to create "a public audiovisual holding company, France Médias, in the audiovisual bill which will be debated in the second quarter of 2020 in Parliament". "In 2020, we must regain the confidence to make our public radio service even stronger in a society that needs it more than ever," said Sibyle Veil to his colleagues.

The management plan of Radio France, which aims to save 60 million euros by 2022, plans to cut 299 jobs cut. The choir was particularly affected, since it had to lose 33 positions, going from 93 to 60 choristers.

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