No paper version of the newspaper since Sunday – Liberation

For the second consecutive day, The regional daily there Provence was not printed this Monday, May 5 due to a renewable strike voted on Saturday at the call of the Filpac-CGT, after the announcement of a job safeguard plan which « Threat directly to dozens of jobs »mainly among printers, according to the union. Sunday and Monday, only the digital version of the title, sold for some 65,000 copies per day on average in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Vaucluse, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Hautes-Alpes, was available online.

La Tribune on SundaySunday weekly which belongs, as the La Provence group (including regional daily newspapers there Provence And Corsica-Matin), at the CMA CGM shipowner, property of Rodolphe Saadéis also not published in paper version in the southeast, south-west and Rhône-Alpes areas.

The social movement was decided after « The announcement, on April 29, of a brutal and unilateral job safeguard plan (PSE), which directly threatens dozens of jobs »indicated the FILPAC-CGT in a press release, asking « Pure and simple cancellation of this PSE ».

According to a union representative, the plan concerns 75 positions, including 51 in the printing press, a « Social massacre » According to this source. A new general meeting was to decide late in the evening on Monday of a possible extension of the movement. «  »Provence is a common good. It is not limited to accounting lines. We defend our jobs, but also a certain idea of ​​the press, free, local and quality. The struggle (…) will continue until the plan is withdrawn ”adds the Filpac-CGT press release.

Referring to a PSE concerning 72 employees, including 51 from the current printing of there ProvenceJean-Christophe Tortora, CEO of CMA Media, CMA CGM media holdingwhich also owns BFMTV and RMC radio, assured this Monday evening that« A reclassification proposal will be made for each of the employees » concerned. Twenty-five reclassification proposals will be made in particular within the new printing press that CMA Médias will acquire in Vitrolles, about thirty kilometers from Marseille, said Tortora, recalling that the current printing of the La Provence group in Marseille will be forced to close in September.

« This is not our decision, the sale of Salengro (the Marseille site, editor’s note) had been decided before taking control of Provence by CMA CGM in October 2022 ”insisted the CMA Media CEO, believing that with the acquisition of the printing of Vitrolles, the newspaper will have « Its own industrial tool, which it deserves ». Among the other employees targeted by the PES, some will be offered departures in early retirement, others reclassifications within CMA CGM.

According to Jean-Christophe Tortora, CMA Media’s decision to opt for the Vitrolles site, where daily newspapers is already printed La Marseillaiseis also the consequence of the difficulties encountered by the group to find a site for a new printing press, due to « Acceptability issues » by the municipalities of these industrial installations, « With their nuisances ».

CMA Media had envisaged a new printing house in Cannet-des-Maures or Muy, two municipalities in Var, without success according to Tortora. He also mentioned the new refusal « clear » This Monday on the part of the State for any support for new press printing works, the latter preferring to promote « The pooling of existing printing works ».