The model has a future Frankfurter Rundschau: outsourcing, temporary work and the production of content on the assembly line.
The Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) consumed today by her reputation as a socially liberal Journal to be. In fact, the newspaper, which was previously managed by a common good foundation has provided generations of readers a critical view of the circumstances of the Bonn Republic. But for several years, the degradation may be overlooked. The declining number of copies sold in 2004 launched an existential crisis. At that time, took over the SPD's own German Print and Verlagsgesell-tion 40 percent of the deficit newspaper and saved her being. The transaction involving the company Neven-Dumont with a further 50 percent stake in 2006 seemed at least economically to enable a future.
were raised, however, the degradation of numerous agencies and drastic cuts in tariff benefits for employees. Were four years ago are still working on 1600 printer, graphic designer, administrative and accounting staff and journalists at the FR, so it remained just under 600 left. You VER-sharing on the editorial building on Main-shore and in the eighties, just before the beginning of the general working paper crisis, established printing center in Neu-Isenburg. Dumont
Even before the paper actually took over the job cuts had begun, and since 2002, the employees give up holiday and Christmas bonuses. Dumont was not enough. A few months after the acquisition were further more job cuts announced, bringing the stewards of this contract, with days of action and hold a warning strike, however. Nevertheless, the number of employees, after laboriously A social plan was negotiated.
was already clear then that the so-cial climate in the Frankfurter Rundschau, which was characterized for decades by a corporatist social partnership on the basis of the foundation's assets, had fundamentally changed. Latest with the shift to the smaller tabloid format and the associated content changes - more images and news agency reports instead of critical, more complex items - the paper was trimmed for that Martin Diekmann was characterized at a meeting of the Division of Verdi media in November 2007 as the "inclusion of journalism in a new type of industrialization process." Thus, the journalists and editors would ultimately lead to "production companies, their customers are not the readers and listeners, but the publishers and broadcasting companies. The economics of journalism, therefore, is that journalism is not primarily sell news or other information - but coverage and rates, "
goes with this comes the Taylorist dismantling of journalistic work processes.. The newspaper itself is only a blank, standardized envelope, a brand name which is to be filled with any content, graphics and other material. The editors of the future update its "Contents" constantly on "Newsdesk" they deliver to several newspapers and online portals with the goal of access rates, sales figures and thus increase advertising revenue. Who the Internet today which reads "Google News" and proceed to the usual words' and 386 similar cases, "it gets a pre-taste.
early April announced Dumont, graphics, layout, images, technical editing and production control by 1 July in a separate subsidiary terfirma with the name "FR outsource Design GmbH" that their services should offer in the future, the majority shareholder M. Dumont-Schauberg and external companies. These include the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and the Express. The below are the "FR Design GmbH" workers - a small erwünsch-ter side-effect - not the collective agreement for the printing industry, but the much less favorable for wholesalers and publishers. This affects 15 people. The rest of the GmbH are recruited from the in-house temp agency employees, the press service of Frankfurt (PDF). Also for the first
July, the department shifted accounting and controlling at the root of the group sitting Dumont Schauberg in Cologne and the appropriate working conditions than in Frankfurt ended with termination agreements. By this measure, 50 employees are affected.
same time was aware that the further destruction of the workforce is planned in several, not the collective agreement for the printing industry Subordinate limited liability companies. Works of trust and then people called for protests-ten. With increasing desperation, she tried to find some of the trade unions and companies take further assistance. Sun mingled at a panel discussion of the newspaper on the theme "1968" at the Historical Museum, a works council under the speakers. Although he promised, just quietly "as a monument to the workers' Sitting on the podium to do it came in the meantime to tumultuous scenes. Also Stefan lever, a member of the Editorial Board of the FR, and Matthias Arning, head of the city editor, were visibly nervous. It is thanks to the audience that the council was allowed to stay on the podium, probably because the reference to the disruptive actions was identified sixty-curd cheese.
The staff resistance culminated in two strikes on 29 May and 12 June. Especially in the second action, it became clear how difficult it is when the fighting staff is split internally and also needs the support of a major union unwilling to fight as Verdi. The goal the trade-union strike line, it was then, the FR on 13 June not to appear. While the printer in Neu-Isenburg-pressure center stopped work, took it outside the headquarters to embarrassing scenes, as editors - Verdi members - said to support the strike do not want. And while the debate in Frankfurt was still in progress, the files for printing to Cologne already been sent, processed and dispatched. In addition to a printing company in Luxembourg, it was mainly the unionized printing of Madsack Group in Hanover, which took part in the strike-breaking. A few weeks ago, still had the local council chairman of the stewards FR assurance that he would not allow it, if in "his" strike operation would be jeopardized. Rainer Maria
Kalitzky, representative works by Verdi and the FR, commented the next day in an open letter: "Solidarity is both in Cologne and Hanover in a foreign word. These hypocrites lie to our striking employees and the Verdi apparatus is watching passively. Just as in other cities have these gentlemen to officials that militant workforces are supported incinerated instead. "
Meanwhile, the protest of the printer of the Frankfurter Rundschau is against the filleting of their holding on.
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Jungle World of 10 July 2008
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