Euronews headquarters, in Lyon, in 2015. -
Philippe DESMAZES / AFP
A 24 hour walkout.
Euronews employees have been on strike since Tuesday.
They denounce the job cuts announced in November.
About fifty employees gathered in front of the chain's headquarters in Lyon in the morning at the call of the intersyndicale SNJ, CFE-CGC, SNRT-CGT, SNJ-CGT.
"This is the first inter-union strike in the company and there is a great mobilization in all the departments", declared Christelle Petrongari, journalist delegate SNJ.
Euronews counted at the beginning of the afternoon “13% of strikers”.
Big mobilization of employees of # Euronews on this day of strike.
Journalists, https://t.co/WeceFdAVfy.s, documentalists ... ✊!
No to layoffs!
@SNJ_national pic.twitter.com/Xe6iY4oRH9
- Marc BOUCHAGE (@marcbouchage) February 9, 2021
The chairman of the board, Michael Peters, had presented this fall to the unions a plan to redeploy the workforce in the face of a loss of advertising revenue linked to the health crisis.
"No union proposal was accepted"
"It is expected that around 30 to 40 people will leave the company, once the PES [Job Saving Plan] process is completed," a Euronews spokesperson informed Tuesday.
The private news channel “currently employs around 500 permanent staff.
New jobs are also being created ”to support digital development, he added.
These jobs "are offered in priority to staff members whose current positions are affected by the departure plan".
For Christelle Petrongari, “it's a purely economic plan (…).
Since the start of PES negotiations, no union proposal has been accepted, ”she lamented.
"We do not want layoffs or so in very limited numbers."
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