Paris (AFP)
Employees of the newspaper and the magazine L'Equipe, who went on strike Friday against a social plan providing for the elimination of forty jobs, called on Saturday to renew the movement for 24 hours, we have learned from union sources.
The sports daily will not appear on Sunday, management told AFP.
It was also not published this Saturday, as well as the weekly magazine.
"Faced with the lack of response from management since yesterday (Friday) 4 p.m., the unions representing journalists, managers and employees have filed a new call for a 24-hour strike from this Saturday 4 p.m. ", wrote the intersyndicale (SNJ - SNJ-CGT - UFICT-CGT - SGLCE-CGT) in a message sent to employees.
The movement is renewable every 24 hours.
"The strike should be well followed this Saturday evening, which is an important evening because there are a lot of football matches," Stéphane Antoine, elected SNJ-CGT, told AFP, adding that the L'Equipe website was working on its side "in slow motion".
The unions are asking for the "withdrawal" of the job protection plan (PSE, social plan), "or a completely different project, which cuts far fewer jobs", and better starting conditions.
Management plans to cut 36 positions out of around 330, or 10% of L'Equipe's workforce, detailed Stéphane Antoine.
Six positions in the Sport & Style supplement, also edited by the L'Equipe group, could also be deleted.
Faced with financial difficulties due to the cessation of sports competitions in the spring of 2020 with the health crisis, the L'Equipe group (which also publishes France Football and Vélo Mag) has been under severe tension since June.
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