The employees of the NextradioTV branches were partially heard. The employees of the branches of NextradioTV, a media group which brings together BFMTV, BFM Paris, BFM Business, RMC and the digital newsrooms of NextRadioTV, went on strike this Wednesday against a savings plan providing for 500 job cuts, or one third of staff of this subsidiary of the Altice group.
Meeting at a general meeting this Sunday at 4 p.m., the employees decided to suspend the strike, after management announced that there would be no forced departures before November 2021.
"The strike is suspended until Monday morning at 9 am"
"The strike is suspended until Monday morning at 9 am," a journalist with political service at RMC confirmed at 20 minutes on Sunday . “We received an email from the management about two hours before the GA. This email said it announced a voluntary departure plan from July 15 to the end of November with a maximum of 330 CDI concerned, but no forced departure, or economic dismissal until November 2021 ", explains a journalist reporter for BFM TV, who did not wish to be cited. And to detail: “Management is open to negotiations on the volume of freelancers, and this is also an essential point. People who worked on RMC Sport will be able to find new positions within the new organization. "
Anticipating a collapse in advertising revenue, NextRadioTV had announced a plan to reduce staff in mid-May. "We were in deficit in April and May for the first time in seventeen years," explains Alain Weill in the columns of the Journal du Dimanche . The coronavirus crisis was "a blow and no one escapes it: TF1, M6, Canal + ... The coming months will be difficult for everyone", he warns.
The group's SDJ had announced this Saturday in a column published on the website of the Journal du Dimanche that they would not cover the second round of the municipal elections. "A heartbreak as journalists, they said. We should be present in dozens of cities, in front of campaign headquarters, on sets, in newsrooms, to tell you, decipher, live with you this high point of democracy. It is our mission. Yet we will not fill it. "
"There will be no antenna this Sunday"
The journalist from the RMC political service should have been in the provinces this Sunday to cover the municipal elections. “As we were on strike, I stayed in Paris and attended the general assembly. It is a special day on a professional and personal level, it is our first strike movement, ”says the political journalist. “Some teams are on site and are waiting to report on the municipal elections which will be broadcast on the air this Monday. The strike will continue until 9 am tomorrow and there will be no antenna this Sunday, ”explains the journalist from BFM TV.
This is the first time that the journalist from the RMC political service has not dealt with such a strong political news. "My heart is heavy," says the journalist, "but I know why I'm not going to cover this event. We gave a lot during the Covid-19 crisis, and we expected these elections as a reward. There is great professional frustration. "
The coverage of the second round of the municipal elections was "readapted" and entrusted to "freelancers and fixed-term workers," according to a member of the SDJ at AFP. "We didn't do it all for nothing. The movement moved the lines. Union organizations can now calmly return to the negotiating table. And I can say it all the more since I am not unionized, ”concludes the journalist from RMC.
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