The Franceinfo.fr site was operating in a degraded manner.
Internet users were informed of the stoppages by the following message: "due to a call for a strike by the intersyndicale SNJ and SNJ-CGT, at France Televisions, the operation of the franceinfo.fr site is disrupted".
According to the strike notice filed last Wednesday, the site's journalists are mobilizing to ensure the maintenance of two journalist posts on permanent contracts and request the reinforcements of staff necessary to respond to the "ever more numerous" missions entrusted to them.
"With less than five months of the presidential election, the franceinfo.fr teams are alerting to the threat weighing on their workforce," claims the Society of Journalists on the site.
"The working hours of fixed-price days very often exceed the average duration of 44 hours per week fixed by the collective agreement", warned the strike notice.
The teams demand that the threatened posts be maintained and "the immediate recruitment on permanent contracts of two specialist editors-journalists, an editorial secretary and a deputy editor-in-chief".
Also requested are the reinforcement of the Franceinfo Culture and Franceinfo Afrique teams, which provide the site with articles on these themes, and the internalization of the site's seven service providers (community managers and motion designers).
Last week, a delegation met the president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte, then the human resources department.
Proposals were made but deemed "insufficient" by the editorial staff concerned, which voted 96% on Monday to maintain the strike.
Created ten years ago, the editorial staff of Franceinfo.fr has 30 journalist editors, so four on fixed-term contracts (excluding supervision and secretaries) who take turns seven days a week from 6 a.m. to midnight to ensure the operation of the site.
The Culture and Africa departments, attached to the website in 2019, have eight journalists each.
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