Solidarity campaign saves two jobs in the Bund editorial office
Slight reduction in redundancies: 14 full-time positions will be cut in the editorial department of the Bund instead of the announced 19. 19 people are affected in total. Among other things, a solidarity campaign within the editorial team has saved two jobs.
Slight reduction in redundancies: 14 full-time positions will be cut in the editorial department of the Bund instead of the announced 19. 19 people are affected in total. Among other things, a solidarity campaign within the editorial team has saved two jobs.
Eleven members of the Bund editorial team have voluntarily reduced their workload, said Christopher Wehrli, Head of Communications at the Bund's parent company Espace Media, when asked by SDA. As a result, 135 full-time positions could be saved, which are attributable to two people. The Bund editorial team had submitted corresponding proposals to the management on Tuesday in order to prevent redundancies. Wehrli was unable to explain exactly how the job cuts differed from those originally announced.
Wehrli was also unable to say exactly what effect the downsizing would have within the departments. When asked by SDA, Bund editor-in-chief Artur K. Vogel said that the economy and culture departments of the Bund would remain, but would be reduced in size. The foreign and domestic departments would be merged. The local department would be the least affected by the job cuts.
Three new positions will be created in the sports editorial department, which will work closely with the Tages-Anzeiger to create the sports section. The Bernese sports reporters will continue to work in Bern. Two jobs will be cut in the sports editorial department of the Berner Zeitung, which previously supplied the Bund. According to Wehrli, a transfer to the newly created sports editorial office is conceivable. The rest of the BZ editorial team is to be spared job cuts for the time being.
The employees of the Bund, Berner Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger have been informed in personal talks since Wednesday. Negotiations on the structure of the social plan are due to start at the beginning of June. In a press release on Wednesday, the professional association Impressum raised the question of whether the desired quality of the new newspaper could be maintained with such a "thinned-out" editorial team.
Eleven members of the Bund editorial team have voluntarily reduced their workload, said Christopher Wehrli, Head of Communications at the Bund's parent company Espace Media, when asked by SDA. As a result, 135 full-time positions could be saved, which are attributable to two people. The Bund editorial team had submitted corresponding proposals to the management on Tuesday in order to prevent redundancies. Wehrli was unable to explain exactly how the job cuts differed from those originally announced.
Wehrli was also unable to say exactly what effect the downsizing would have within the departments. When asked by SDA, Bund editor-in-chief Artur K. Vogel said that the economy and culture departments of the Bund would remain, but would be reduced in size. The foreign and domestic departments would be merged. The local department would be the least affected by the job cuts.
Three new positions will be created in the sports editorial department, which will work closely with the Tages-Anzeiger to create the sports section. The Bernese sports reporters will continue to work in Bern. Two jobs will be cut in the sports editorial department of the Berner Zeitung, which previously supplied the Bund. According to Wehrli, a transfer to the newly created sports editorial office is conceivable. The rest of the BZ editorial team is to be spared job cuts for the time being.
The employees of the Bund, Berner Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger have been informed in personal talks since Wednesday. Negotiations on the structure of the social plan are due to start at the beginning of June. In a press release on Wednesday, the professional association Impressum raised the question of whether the desired quality of the new newspaper could be maintained with such a "thinned-out" editorial team.
