Paris (AFP)
Employees of the newspaper and magazine L'Équipe, on strike since Friday against a social plan providing for the elimination of forty jobs, decided on Sunday to renew the movement for 24 hours, we learned from a union source .
The sports daily will not appear on Monday, for the third day in a row, management told AFP.
Denouncing the "contempt" of management, the intersyndicale (SNJ - SNJ-CGT - UFICT-CGT - SGLCE-CGT) is organizing a general assembly by videoconference Monday at 2:00 p.m.
For its part, the management of the newspaper indicates that it "is continuing the consultation schedule set with the union representatives in this third month of information".
The movement is renewable every 24 hours.
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'Équipe's workforce, detailed Stéphane Antoine, elected SNJ-CGT.
Six positions in the Sport & Style supplement, also edited by the L'Équipe 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'Équipe group (which also publishes France Football and Vélo Mag) has been experiencing severe tensions since June.
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