Le Monde Staffers To Strike
Staff at Le Monde, France's newspaper of record, will go on strike on Monday to protest against savage job cutting plans, threatening publication of the paper for only the second time in its 64-year history.
Le Monde's management announced last week that 130 jobs would have to go, two-thirds of which will be in the newsroom. The newsroom cuts represent one in four journalists or about 87 staff.
These cuts, which even Le Monde's new management accept are drastic, are part of plans to turn around the loss-making paper.





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Guardian.co.uk | Gwladys Fouché | April 11, 2008 06:20 AM