Republic on strike: the release of the assembly of journalists

The communiqué of the assembly of the Republic and of the Coordination of CDR of the Gedi group

The Repubblica website and those of all the Gedi group publications will not be updated today. Tomorrow, you won’t find any of the editorial group’s newspapers on the newsstands. Journalists and journalists are on strike to protest following the “marketing” of individual newspapers or groups of newspapers, with their sites and paper and digital newspapers.

As Gedi’s managing director Maurizio Scanavino said in Wednesday’s meeting with the coordination of the editorial committees, “it depends on the offer and on the interlocutors”, confirming that contacts are underway with groups interested in acquiring the historic titles of the Northeast (il Mattino di Padova, La Nuova di Venezia, Tribuna di Treviso, Corriere delle Alpi, Il Messaggero Veneto and Il Piccolo) to which would be added the Gazette of Mantua. But the principle can also be extended to La Stampa, the Republic, Il Secolo XIX, the Province of Pavese, the Canavese Sentinel, Huffington Postthe radios: there is no longer the “corporate reference perimeter” that the CEO himself had outlined only in December.

What was once the largest Italian publishing group and which overnight in three years has already sold historic publications such as Nuova Sardegna and Il Tirreno, the Gazzette, La Nuova Ferrara, L’Espresso and closed Micromega, opens again at market.

The logic of economic advantage has rapidly replaced that of interest in territories and information, for which all journalists and journalists have worked in recent years. And they still do today, facing the challenges and unknowns of a difficult digital transition for some time. Work now put on the market so lightly with a purely entrepreneurial logic that we cannot accept.

In a free market, ownership certainly has the right to sell – while assuming the responsibility of dispersing the legacy of a publishing group that has made the history of information in Italy, projecting itself first and into positions of leadership also in the world of digital communication – but bearing in mind that free information and pluralism are a sensitive asset essential to democracy. We need maximum transparency on who will have the future ownership and a guarantee on respect for the labor rights of employees.

The communiqué of the Rsu of the Gedi group
All the union representatives of the Gedi Group companies express their solidarity with the Coordination of the Editorial Committees of the Gedi Group newspapers following the rumors of undisputed negotiations for the sale of the historic North-Eastern newspapers.

We share their concerns both in terms of employment and in terms of publishing because they are ours too, given the choices made by the owners, which recently involved the sale of Espresso, the sale of two business branches of Gedi Digital and now the sales news of the North-East titles.
Rsu Gnn Repubblica, Rsu Gnn Stampa, Rsu Secolo XIX, Rsu GPS, Rsu Manzoni, Rsu Gedi Digital, Rsu Elemedia