Overview
- About twenty Paris-based journalists from RFI's international service stopped work on November 18 to protest deteriorating working conditions.
- Strikers seek a return to 16 full-time equivalent posts, saying the team has been cut while foreign conflict coverage has expanded since early 2022.
- Unions say reporters earn less when deployed because on-call and Sunday premiums are not paid during missions, despite the risks involved.
- Management says on-air impact is hard to gauge, with some disruptions reported, and held talks with unions Tuesday afternoon.
- The action is backed by five unions and RFI's correspondents' association, and a CGT delegate said management seemed to move on several points pending written proposals.