PARIS (Reuters) – An agreement between the management of Lagardère News, the Society of Journalists (SDJ) and the unions has been reached to end the record strike started by the editorial staff of the Journal du Dimanche on June 22, 2023, announced Tuesday the press group in a press release.
“Following a resumption of dialogue, the management of Lagardère News, the SDJ and the trade union organizations have reached an agreement to put an end to the strike movement which began on June 22, 2023”, indicates Lagardère News.
The agreement provides for a resumption of activity on the JDD.fr website from Tuesday and the newspaper should return to newsstands “from mid-August 2023”.
The agreement, the content of which has not been disclosed, provides for “the establishment of support conditions for journalists who wish to leave the editorial staff”.
The editorial staff of the JDD was on strike to protest against the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist marked on the far right and presented as a close friend of Eric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal, at the head of the weekly.
“For forty days, we fought battles on all fronts”, declared in a separate press release the editorial staff of the JDD, which deplores the fact that Arnaud Lagardère, CEO of Lagardère, “remained deaf to our demands, in a context of takeover of the group by Vivendi”.
“Today, Geoffroy Lejeune takes office. It is in an empty editorial office that he will enter,” added the editorial staff, which specified that it had voted 94% to end the strike movement.
(Writing by Zhifan Liu, editing by Kate Entringer)
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