Comedia appeals to Ringier to reconsider job cuts
In a communiqué, the media union Comedia criticizes the 22 redundancies at the Ringier media company. It appeals to the publishing house to assume its social and journalistic responsibility even in less rosy economic times and to reconsider the redundancies.
In a communiqué, the media union Comedia criticizes the 22 redundancies at the Ringier media company. It appeals to the publishing house to take its social and journalistic responsibility seriously, even in less rosy economic times, and to reconsider the redundancies. For those employees whose dismissal is unavoidable, the union is calling for the negotiation of a generous social plan with the staff committee and the social partners.
Although there are indeed signs of a slowdown in the advertising market at the moment, the company can look back on a very good business performance in the current year as well as in 2006/2007. "This is not least thanks to the employees," writes the union, "and with such massive cuts, the employees of the entire media industry are being unsettled, and the Ringier media company is proactively turning the crisis wheel."
The same demands are also directed at Gassmann AG, publisher of the Bieler Tagblatt among others, and Weltwoche Verlags AG, which also want to cut jobs and lay off staff.
Although there are indeed signs of a slowdown in the advertising market at the moment, the company can look back on a very good business performance in the current year as well as in 2006/2007. "This is not least thanks to the employees," writes the union, "and with such massive cuts, the employees of the entire media industry are being unsettled, and the Ringier media company is proactively turning the crisis wheel."
The same demands are also directed at Gassmann AG, publisher of the Bieler Tagblatt among others, and Weltwoche Verlags AG, which also want to cut jobs and lay off staff.
