We assess the damagesaid in an interview on Monday Carl Beaudoin, president of the Syndicat des Employees de TVA – a local branch of the CUPEaffiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labor (FTQ).

The TVA Group announced in a press release last Thursday that 240 jobs would be cut, 140 of them directly at TVA. The others must relate to other Quebecor entities that provide services to the company.

Mr. Beaudoin notes that at the moment 25 unionized positions would be affected. However, the number is not definitive, Absolutely not, it’s still developing. There may well be positions that have been vacant, temporary positions, not to mention the nudge rights that can be exercised between employees.

Of course, when we heard the announcement of the 240 positions, we certainly thought carnage. It scared us a bit. It’s awful and definitely a cut, a job loss, it’s always worrying. But as we speak, we’re still assessing the damage. Sounds less dramatic than originally announcedevaluates the president of the local CUPE.

As a union, it goes without saying that we defend the rights of our members, he started. He hopes that with discussions he will be able to transform these job cuts, maybe in hourly breaks; We work at this level.

According to the information available to him, it would be primarily non-union members and executives who would be affected. His union represents between 800 and 1,000 workers.

Mr Beaudoin also regrets the fact that TVA did not inform the union beforehand.

” The sad thing is that we found out at the same time as everyone else that the employer was going to put in place a recovery plan. »

The least is that TVA could have warned the union beforehand. We might at least have contributed, in quotes “damage control“. I don’t think there is anyone better placed than us, with our members who have worked in this environment for years, who have the expertise that could have helped in partnership with the employer to try to mitigate this reorganizationadded Mr. Beaudoin.

The union has already learned that the journalist from Baie-Comeau has resigned from his position. However, it covered the entire Greater Côte-Nord and was affiliated with CFER Rimouski.

Other expenses will be affected by these cuts, including the service contract for the TVA helicopter and shaft transfer trucks, as Mr Beaudoin specified.

Cutbacks in many subsidiaries

On the management side, it is reported that managers are currently working to manage these cuts in their budget by sector.

There rationalization of resources will also affect subsidiaries NumériQ, Quebecor Expertise Media and Quebecor Content.

TVA Group and Quebecor Content’s subsidiaries will implement certain streamlining while ensuring they continue to invest in the production and acquisition of entertainment contentindicates the direction.

The NumériQ subsidiary, which creates and develops digital strategies for Quebecor, its subsidiaries and several external clients, will increase its activities to prioritize the most successful promising projects.She adds.

Magazines are also affected. To offset the decline in the magazine sector, particularly due to the significant reduction in support offered by the Canada Periodical Fund, TVA Publications will reduce the size of its teams but will continue to produce all of its magazines.