Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Le Monde workers strike over job cuts

Le Monde workers strike over job cuts

By Ben Hall in Paris

Published: April 14 2008 19:24 | Last updated: April 14 2008 23:57

Journalists at Le Monde, the French daily paper, went on strike on Monday to protest against job cuts in a dispute that highlights the dire state of the national newspaper industry.

Readers of the lunchtime daily went without their paper as staff protested against a restructuring in only the second strike in the paper’s 54-year-old history.

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