Newsstands in France are empty today, after distribution company NMPP announced it is on a 24-hour strike, The Connexion reported Thursday.

NMPP is the main group that delivers 85 percent magazines and newspapers to shops and newsstands in France.

Weekly magazines that usually are available Thursday will be delivered as usual everywhere but Paris, which will have a 24-hour delay in those publications hitting newsstands, The Connexion reported.

NMPP ensures all newspapers have the same opportunity to be available on newsstands, and the group claims plans to restructure NMPP will lead to lost jobs and integrity.

“We need urgent and realistic negotiations to ensure that national newspaper distribution has a sustainable future in France,” a spokesman for the strikers said, according to The Connexion. “The fact that newspaper bosses are refusing to negotiate means this co-operative system of distribution, which has existed since 1947, risks being killed off.”

Owners of 12 large dailies in France (Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France, La Croix, Les Echos, L'Equipe, Le Figaro, France Soir, the International Herald Tribune, le Journal du Dimanche, Libération, Le Monde, Paris Turf and La Tribune) on Wednesday published an open letter in their newspapers stating that the strikers want “to kill the daily press in France.”