The newspaper “Le Monde” (illustration) – NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA
An pressing scenario. The each day impression The world was blocked Monday in Ile-de-France following an illustration by the Ebook-CGT union, which asks publishers and the state to relaunch the distribution of newspapers. Following the liquidation of the distributor Presstalis in Might, a number of areas are now not often delivered in newspapers, together with Lyon and Marseille.
100 former workers of SAD, the liquidated distribution subsidiary of Presstalis, demonstrated Monday morning in entrance of the Paris headquarters of World. The group’s boss, Louis Dreyfus, additionally heads the each day newspaper cooperative, which has taken over a part of Presstalis, which has turn into France Messagerie.
“Publishers always tend to let the situation rot”
The SGLCE-CGT, which was not acquired within the newspaper, introduced that the printing of the World can be blocked in Ile-de-France. “The national dailies have their hands on the file,” stated Didier Lourdez, secretary normal of the SGLCE-CGT. “We have provided solutions for the distribution of daily newspapers in the provinces for a month”.
In Marseille as in Lyon, the previous workers might quickly now not have entry to the premises, which have been rented by Presstalis, to make sure the distribution of the press. They remorse that the 2 distributors, France Messagerie and the MLP, don’t get alongside, and the absence of the State. “Publishers always tend to let the situation rot by letting the state intervene,” stated Guillaume Dumoulin, union consultant of the SAD. “To believe that the State and the editors have only one objective: the elimination of the CGT in this sector”, supported Didier Lourdez.
