Radio France: resumption of social dialogue, but the strike continues – TF1

The resumption of dialogue between management and unions at Radio France, held Saturday at the request of the Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin was no immediate effect on Strike in its third week and is expected to continue at least until Tuesday. This is the longest conflict for ten years at Radio France. It costs a million euros a week to the public group loss of advertising revenue. “There is no hope of getting out of the strike immediately, the discomfort is deep,” he told AFP a union source while the meeting was still ongoing in the early evening, adding that organizations “do not honestly expecting much” of this meeting.

The meeting between union representatives and management took place without the group’s CEO, Mathieu Gallet, has-been learned with stakeholders. “Mathieu Gallet is not a party, he is disqualified and it is not seen in the negotiations,” said a trade unionist. The unionists also consider that the CEO was “discredited” after the recent revelations Duck chained to his expenses. On Friday, a staff assembly voted against him a confidence motion.

The meeting on Saturday nevertheless confirmed the continuation of the two orchestras of Radio France with the management commitment not to merge them, even if there are areas of “ambiguity” according to the CFDT delegate, Renaud Dalmar. For the unions, only significant advances would end the strike. “Unless major breakthrough, the strike will continue (…). After you have to find a way,” commented Philippe Ballet Saturday morning (Unsa) .For Renaud Dalmar, whatever the outcome of Saturday’s meeting, the strike will continue until Tuesday, date of the next general meeting of the staff.

redundancy plan

On the merits, the unions showed Saturday shared on proposals Fleur Pellerin. Friday night, the minister told AFP that a voluntary redundancy plan for Radio France was “probably necessary” but specifically rejected a merger of two orchestras while wishing them “resizing”. It also considered a supplementary budget to finance the completion of the house of the Radio. “There are advanced on maintaining two orchestras. There will be efforts to agree but we can discuss it. However, the Minister confirms a redundancy plan. We fear downsizing especially in the 44 local radio France Bleu “, noted Philippe Ballet in the morning.

The strike began on March 19, while Mathieu Gallet had not yet submitted, or to the social partners nor the ministry’s strategic plan for rectifying the accounts of the round house, heavy loss . Convened twice Fleur Pellerin, the leader of 38 years afinalement handed him this week and will now introduce at an extraordinary CEC Radio France on Wednesday, when he will also defend his plan to the National Assembly. In search of savings, the government asks him to reform Radio France without spending more, as it has done for other public sector actors.

The tension was mounted on a Friday notch in the conflict, with the vote of no-confidence motion against the CEO. Staff also voted to continue the strike until Tuesday morning. Movement, that journalists have joined widely Friday was extended massively in a general staff meeting attended by between 300 and 400 employees. Weakened, Mathieu Gallet, said Thursday he would go “to the end”, recalling that he could be removed only by the CSA who appointed there a little over a year.