France Bleu stops here. Even before the courts rule this Monday, December 23, 2024, no more obstacles stand in the way of the change of name – on January 6, 2025 – of the station with 44 locals of the Radio France group. According to information from “Satellifacts”, published Friday December 20, and that Puremédias is able to confirm, the CSEs of France Bleu and Radio France have found common ground with their management. A week earlier, on December 13, they had taken legal action, having been insufficiently consulted to their liking, to request the “suspension” of the Ici project. Only one “point d’information” was carried out by management during the last CSE.
The unions have “obtained sufficient guarantees”
In force until December 31, 2027, this agreement was signed by the CFDT, CGT, FO, SNJ, Sud and Unsa sections of the Round House, which believe they have “obtained sufficient guarantees which will allow them to analyze all the stages of the France Bleu / France 3 merger“. The inter-union, which salutes a “victory for the defense of employees” of Radio France, for example, secured the organization in mid-January 2025 of an information-consultation procedure. This will allow us to address upstream “all stages of the merger project” relating to working conditions, staff numbers and the organization of the company.
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In addition, a body bringing together elected officials from the CSE France Bleu and central will be set up in order to monitor “as close as possible to everything that will or will not be done“, on a quarterly basis. The agreement finally includes a social component with the implementation of a psychosocial risk prevention plan relating to the merger project between France Bleu and France 3. Contacted by Puremédias, the management of France Bleu retains what is, for it, the essential: “The constant desire for dialogue and the open attitude of management made it possible to maintain the transfer of the brand until January 6, 2025, which we welcome“.
According to “Satellifacts”, the cost of this brand transfer amounts to 6 million euros, including 3.8 million euros for the 2025 financial year which Radio France forecasts a slight deficit. This project “major” will be financed by the public enterprise alone after the State has withdrawn the allocation provided for this – in this case the transformation credits, deplore the unions.
