Journalists in French-speaking Switzerland receive new CLA
The new collective labor agreement for journalists in French-speaking Switzerland has been concluded after months of tough wrangling. It will come into force in 2007. The journalists accepted it "without enthusiasm".
The new collective labor agreement for journalists in French-speaking Switzerland has been concluded after months of tough wrangling. It will come into force in 2007. The journalists accepted it "without enthusiasm".
Mathieu Fleury, General Secretary of the Impressum professional association, commented to SDA: "This is a sensible yes to a reference text". The CLA is necessary to protect the weakest and to continue to regulate working conditions. However, the battle is not yet over. The fact that the negotiations - one of the main points of criticism - now have to be conducted in the companies is a step towards new battles. In addition, the new contract contains a number of deteriorations compared to the one that is still valid until the end of the year. Accepting the new agreement would mean choosing the lesser of two evils over a situation without a contract, as Impressum wrote in a press release on Friday. The journalists' association is now calling for the contract to be rigorously enforced and sees the result as a strong signal for German-speaking Switzerland, where there has been no contract for media professionals in the press since publishers terminated the CLA in 2004.
Mathieu Fleury, General Secretary of the Impressum professional association, commented to SDA: "This is a sensible yes to a reference text". The CLA is necessary to protect the weakest and to continue to regulate working conditions. However, the battle is not yet over. The fact that the negotiations - one of the main points of criticism - now have to be conducted in the companies is a step towards new battles. In addition, the new contract contains a number of deteriorations compared to the one that is still valid until the end of the year. Accepting the new agreement would mean choosing the lesser of two evils over a situation without a contract, as Impressum wrote in a press release on Friday. The journalists' association is now calling for the contract to be rigorously enforced and sees the result as a strong signal for German-speaking Switzerland, where there has been no contract for media professionals in the press since publishers terminated the CLA in 2004.
