Strikers destroy French frees
Strikers at the Brodard Graphique printing plant in Coulommiers destroyed 150,000 copies of the Wednesday issues of French free daily Direct Matin (right).
Between 30 and 40 strikers put water on the copies by using the fire hoses at the factory. Also the tires of two trucks were cut.
Total circulation Direct Matin is around 450,000; Direct Matin printed more papers later to make up for the destroyed copies. (Le Monde, L’Express)
The main problem is that Vincent’s Bolloré’s Direct Matin moved from the “newspaper” printing plant of Le Monde to the “commercial” printing plant of Brodard. The trade union CGT wants newspapers to be printed at newspaper printers, while newspapers prefer commercial printers were trade unions are less powerful and rates are lower. (see previous post)
February 17th, 2010 at 10:59 am
[...] a strike at the printing plant and the destruction of newspapers (see previous post), copies of free French daily Direct Matin were stolen in Paris on February 9. Several thousand [...]