[A-DX] RFI unions call “indefinite” strike from 7 January

[Martin Prochazka <prochazka_martin@xxxxxx>]

Quelle: 
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/rfi-unions-call-indefinite-strike-from-7-january

RFI unions call “indefinite” strike from 7 January

January 6th, 2010 - 20:54 UTC by Andy Sennitt. No comments yet
Excerpt from report by French news agency AFP

Paris, 6 January 2010: A call for an “indefinite” strike at Radio France 
Internationale (RFI) has been issued by the FO, SNJ, SNJ-CGT and 
SNRT-CGT trade unions, beginning at 0000 on Thursday [7 January - 2300 
gmt on 6 January], calling for the management to agree to the departure 
of all volunteers for redundancy under the restructuring plan.

A general assembly of the staff is scheduled for late Thursday morning 
to decide whether or not to extend the movement. It cannot be said in 
advance whether or not this will cause any disruption [to services] at 
the station. Around 270 members of staff at the state-owned station have 
volunteered for redundancy under the restructuring plan announced a year 
ago, which makes provision for only 201 job cuts out of around 1,000.

The trade unions are demanding that the 69 “refused voluntary 
redundancy” be able to leave and for the management to recruit to 
“compensate for these additional departures”, it was explained by Maria 
Afonso, the (FO) secretary of the works committee.“The management has 
submitted a request to the regulatory authority (including the Ministry 
of Culture and Communication) to take care of the additional 
departures,” said Ms Afonso.

A meeting with RFI Chairman and Managing Director Alain de Pouzilhac and 
General Manager Delegate Christine Ockrent is scheduled to take place at 
the Ministry of Culture on Friday, according to [Culture Minister] 
Frederic Mitterrand’s agenda.

[Passage omitted: background]

The restructuring plan announced in January 2009 made provision for 206 
job cuts, but as five posts had already been left vacant, the figure was 
set at 201.The closure of six language desks (German, Albanian, Polish, 
Serbo-Croat, Turkish and Laotian) was also announced.

(Source: AFP news agency, Paris, in French 1621 gmt 6 Jan 10 via BBC 
Monitoring)
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