Bund editorial team defends itself against staff cuts

The editorial team of the daily newspaper Der Bund is defending itself against the 19 job cuts imposed by Tamedia. According to a press release issued by the journalist organizations on Tuesday, the necessity of the redundancies is not verifiable for the staff affected and could potentially jeopardize the quality of the daily newspaper and thus also the image of the Tamedia Group. Where redundancies are nevertheless unavoidable, they are to be offset by short-time working, early retirement and voluntary reductions in workload.
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On Tuesday, under the slogan "Quality is not free!", the Bund editorial team, accompanied by Comedia and Impressum, presented its management with the proposals drawn up by the personnel commission on how the announced job cuts could be avoided or reduced. In view of Tamedia's comfortable financial situation, the cutbacks are not absolutely necessary.

Lack of cooperation with the Personnel Commission
The editorial team also criticizes the fact that the legally required consultation of the workforce was only carried out in a summary manner. In particular, the staff commission was denied access to in-depth information that would have been necessary to review the necessity of the redundancies and to look for alternatives to staff reductions.

Editor-in-chief of Bunds Artur K. Vogel, Marc Zbinden from Espace Media and Daniel Goldstein from PeKo.

Christopher Wehrli, Head of Communications Espace Media, Daniel Goldstein and Marc Zbinden.

Markus Dütschler and Daniel Goldstein from PeKo.