Public service: Delphine Ernotte creates a “social chaos” in France Télévisions

Delphine Ernotte CUNCE seeks to save money. And what could be better than the wage bill to serve as an adjustment variable? Wednesday, July 9, the CEO of France Télévisions announced, without any prior discussion with the unions, a renegotiation of collective agreements.

At the head of the public audiovisual group since 2015, she therefore attacks real social violence at the conventional coverage of her employees, arguing of a necessary digital turn, which still has a good back to slash here and there.

Faced with this attack, Pierre Mouchel, secretary general of SNRT-CGT and CGT central delegate of France Télévisions, denounces a decision “Abrupt and dangerous that was not on the agenda”. Delphine Ernotte Cunci demanded a voting with a cookie cutter.

Administrators, “Who looked good since for a long time”voted in favor of the denunciation of the collective agreement. The union representatives voted against. They fell from the clouds. A « chaos social » takes place just before the vacation departures, underlines Pierre Mouchel who suggested that the management wait before making this decision.

A “management of terror”

“She wants to break the trades nomenclature so that employees become versatile”continues the CGT central delegate. They will have more tasks to accomplish, so some trades will gradually disappear. Delphine Ernotte Cunci aims “To explode professional trades and practices in order, she pretends, to adapt to the digital rocking”, The inter-union is indignant (SNJ-CGT, CFDT, SNJ and FO) in a common press release.

The 8,800 employees should see their wired benefits. The last negotiation of these agreements dates from 2013, after four years of harsh negotiations, which lasted four years, when the various entities of France Télévisions found themselves in the same group.

One of the provisions that Delphine Ernotte-Cunci would like to review, according to Pierre Mouchel, aims at the company’s departure conditions: until now, from thirty years of seniority, if an employee was licensed, he left with two years of salary. Management wishes to review this without going through the social plan box to avoid paying too much.

Delphine Ernotte has the reputation of despising her employees. When she was at the head of Orange, she was “Omnipresent” et “Micked up everything”. Except “Management by terror”which provoked 35 suicides of employees in 2008 and 2009.

This denunciation of the collective agreement comes at a time when France Télévisions is threatened with a merger with Radio France and the INA within the same holding company. “We are in the midst of examination of the bill on the future of public audiovisualwrites the inter -union. It would be advisable to keep our heads cold to find out in which frame we will find once the parliamentary process is completed ”. Because if the holding company was to see the days, it would be necessary again to smooth the statutes between its different entities, France Télévisions, Radio France and the INA.

After the abolition of fees and advertising on certain slots, “The funding supposed to compensate for these losses have been constantly reduced, creating a real long -term social plan”. For the time being, nothing is planned on this point for examining the text. Senators debate this Thursday, July 10 and Friday July 11 in the Senate.

The inter-union CGT-CFDT-SNJ-FO is not fooled. The holding project is only one person to control everything, “Sacper in the workforce of the subsidiaries, give less time and means to the crew which will remain to prevent it from shadow the private flotils and confine it to the foam of information”. To guarantee the independence of public audiovisual, unions call on senators to mobilize strongly during the second reading of the text in the upper room.