For the second consecutive day, the regional daily La Provence was not printed on Monday due to a renewable strike voted on Saturday at the call of the FILPAC-CGT, after the announcement of a job safeguard plan which “threatens directly from dozens of jobs”, mainly among printer, according to the union. Sunday and Monday, only the digital version of the title, sold for some 65,000 copies per day on average in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Vaucluse, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Hautes-Alpes, was available online.
“Due to a social movement at the printing center, Provence was not printed this Sunday evening. You can however download the digital edition of this Monday, May 5, 2025 on our site and our apps. We ask you to apologize,” the newspaper explained to its readers in a message on X on Monday morning. Solicited by AFP The management said that it was going to provide details.
“A social massacre” for unions
La Tribune on Sunday, Sunday weekly which belongs, like the La Provence group (including the regional daily newspapers La Provence and Corse-Matin), to the CMA CGM shipowner, owned by Rodolphe Saadé, was not published in paper version in the South-East, South-Ouest and Rhône-Alpes areas. The social movement was decided after “the announcement, on April 29, of a brutal and unilateral employment safeguard plan (PSE), which directly threatens dozens of jobs,” said FilPac-CGT in a press release, asking for “the pure and simple cancellation of this PSE”. According to a union representative questioned by AFP, which denounces a “social massacre”, the plan concerns 75 positions, mainly printers but also administrative jobs.
“Provence is a common good. It is not limited to accounting lines. We defend our jobs, but also a certain idea of the press, free, local and quality. The fight (…) will continue until the withdrawal of the plan,” added the Filpac-CGT press release.
