“Today, Geoffroy Lejeune takes office. It is in an empty editorial office that he will enter. Dozens of journalists refuse to work with him and should leave the JDD. » It is with these saddened words that the drafting of the Sunday newspaper (JDD) (owned by the Lagardère group, about to be taken over by Vivendi, the group of billionaire Vincent Bolloré) finally threw in the towel on Tuesday 1er August… without winning the case. She resigned herself to initialing an agreement between the Society of Journalists of the JDDthe trade unions and the management of Lagardère News (the group’s media division) to put an end to a historically long strike.
For forty days, since June 22, a hundred journalists have fought ” tirelessly ” against the nomination at the head of the editorial staff of the weekly of Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist marked on the extreme right, presented as a close associate of Eric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal. The editorial staff capitulated. The end of the strike was decided by 94% during a secret ballot (82 for, 5 against and 3 who did not decide) and was lifted on Tuesday. “This agreement provides for a resumption of activity with a return to the publication of the LeJDD.fr website from 1er August and the publication of the newspaper on newsstands from mid-August”said in a press release Lagardère News (which, apart from The JDDhat also Paris Match and Europe 1).
The agreement also announces “the establishment of support conditions for journalists who wish to leave the editorial staff”according to the official press release. Two months of salary per year of seniority up to fifteen years of house, then one month per additional year were obtained. A floor is provided for those hired for two years or less (who will leave with a minimum of three months’ salary) and a training package has been negotiated for those over 50 or those who have accumulated twenty years in the house.
Takeover of Bolloré
On the other hand, the negotiations stumbled over the adoption of a code of ethics, said Bertrand Greco, co-president of the society of journalists. The direction refused to include in it the ban on “any publication of racist, sexist and homophobic remarks”. This editorial requirement was motivated by the fact that Current valuesunder the direction of Geoffroy Lejeune, had been condemned on appeal for public insult of a racist nature towards the deputy Danièle Obono (LFI), in November 2022. “We refused to sign a sham editorial independence committee since the management refused to have outside personalities sit on it”, added Bertrand Greco. Lagardère News has, for its part, promised that ” THE JDD will thus continue with rigor and excellence, as it has always done, to offer quality information to all the readers who have trusted it for seventy-five years now”.
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