Marseille (AFP)
"The situation is catastrophic, we must find a solution immediately," hammered Friday in Marseille CGT representatives of the subsidiary of the newspaper distributor Presstalis put into compulsory liquidation and private press kiosks for a month.
On May 15, the Paris Commercial Court ordered the compulsory liquidation of the two subsidiaries of the highly indebted newspaper distributor Presstalis, the SAD in Marseille and Soprocom, responsible for distributing newspapers and magazines.
These subsidiaries have 512 employees at around fifteen sites, including some 130 employees in Marseille, who have since had no more work and are preparing to receive their dismissal letter in the coming days.
In the second city of France, more than 600 kiosks "at the end" have more newspapers to sell, rebelled Christian Andrieux, head of the professional union of the sector, Culture Press, invited to the press conference organized Friday by the CGT.
"We support all the initiatives which allow a resumption of the diffusion of the press, of which that of the CGT since there is no other proposal", continued Mr. Andrieux, deploring "that we let die newspaper merchants in silence. "
"We are ready to resume activity tomorrow. It is in our interest that it starts again very quickly," defended Maxime Picard, CGT delegate. On one condition, however: that a round table "with all the players in the sector - printers, carriers, distributors, publishers, couriers and employee representatives" be organized to fix a new project.
The union had proposed on May 25 the establishment of a cooperative society of collective interest (SCIC) owned by employees, users and publishers, for example, without any party being able to exceed 50% of the votes. While waiting for this project to see the light of day, he requests the resumption of the distribution of newspapers on the SAD website via a parapublic operator like La Poste.
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