Media News - Thursday, April 17, 2008
France’s Le Monde journalists vote for another strike
Staff at Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, voted Wednesday to hold their second one-day strike in a week to protest plans to axe a quarter of the daily's journalists. The strike, voted at a staff general assembly, means the debt-ridden afternoon paper will not be published on Thursday. It was missing from newsstands Monday in an earlier protest at plans to cut 129 jobs - including up to 90 journalists - and sell several magazines in a bid to pull the Le Monde press group out of a financial crisis. Management has said it will resort to forced departures for the first time in the newspaper's history. Another 170 jobs would be affected by the sale of two publishing houses, a cultural weekly and the La Procure religious publications. Chief editor Eric Fottorino said this week that Monday's strike came during "serious and exceptional" times at the newspaper but vowed to press on with the proposed cuts to save the publication. (AFP via The Tocqueville Connection)
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