La Presse haggles for its life
Posted by Lisette García on October 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM
President and editor Guy Crevier announced today that half of La Presse's eight unions have agreed in principle to changes that would stave a promised closure of North America's largest French-language broadsheet on December 1, The Canadian Press reported yesterday.
The agreement follows Crevier's October 22 plea to employees, republished by Rue Frontenac, to reconsider their bargaining position in the face of the newspaper's financial disclosures made on October 16.
The agreement follows Crevier's October 22 plea to employees, republished by Rue Frontenac, to reconsider their bargaining position in the face of the newspaper's financial disclosures made on October 16.
Apparently, the agreement was preceded also by an open editorial titled "Reasonable and responsible offers," in which Crevier underscored the economic context impacting Canadian media, notably facing a drop in advertising revenue, according to Infopresse.
In July, La Presse stopped publishing a Sunday edition as a cost-cutting measure, as La Presse then reported.
In July, La Presse stopped publishing a Sunday edition as a cost-cutting measure, as La Presse then reported.
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