Protest against the closure of the NZZ printing plant

In it, they called for the closure of the printing center in Schlieren ZH to be abandoned. At the end of November, the NZZ Media Group announced that the printing plant in Schlieren ZH would be closed for economic reasons (Werbewoche.ch reported). A maximum of 125 of the 184 jobs will be affected. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung and NZZ am Sonntag will in future be printed at Tamedia's Zurich printing center. The NZZ media group's growth potential lies primarily in the digital market. Among the demonstrators were employees from the printing plant, the NZZ and NZZ am Sonntag editorial teams and representatives of trade unions. According to Brigitte Hürlimann, President of the Personnel Commission, the closure makes no sense either from a business or media policy perspective.

Abandonment of the print shop is a "strategic error"

The print shop has full order books and delivers outstanding quality. Strategically, Hürlimann went on to say that it would be a mistake to hand oneself over to the direct competition lock, stock and barrel, earning applause from those present. Hürlimann emphasized that the editors were by no means closing themselves off to the digital sector. But a print edition is always needed in parallel. After all, many people want to pick up a newspaper that has been produced in an "in-house print shop in outstanding quality".

CEO Veit Dengler said he would take the petition seriously and read it carefully. In the print sector, however, there is a simple milk carton calculation: "Printing costs are rising, income is falling. That can't go well." Dengler went on to say that he was responsible for the entire company. He hopes that a joint solution can be found together and not against each other.
find. The closure of the printing plant in Schlieren is subject to consultations with employee representatives. They have until mid-January 2015 to comment on the management's intended measures and develop proposals on how redundancies can be avoided. (SDA)