Union press release
Milan, May 14, 2021
More cuts. Condé Nast Italia declared 26 redundant journalists – more than a third of the total staff – within a vast international reorganization, with undefined outlines and without a precise editorial plan being shared with the editorial staff. An operation carried out on staff already reduced to the bone and professionals who during the state of emergency showed a great sense of responsibility towards readers and the company.
These strategies, which for us cannot be shared, jeopardize publications that, over the years, have been able to tell about social and civil changes and Italian excellence. By removing the voice of those who, through our magazines and websites – Vanity Fair, Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue, GQ, AD, Wired, La Cucina Italiana and Traveler – have found a space to tell their story.
For this reason, the Condé Nast journalists, after learning of the company’s intentions in the journalists’ assembly, immediately proclaimed a day of strike, today 14 May 2021, declared a state of agitation and entrusted the CDR with a package of another four days of abstention from work.
We journalists of Condé Nast certainly do not miss the difficult situation in which the publishing market finds itself, also aggravated by the pandemic. However, in the face of everyone’s incredible efforts, which have ensured the release of quality publishing products and the development of new business opportunities, the answer is a reorganization that takes the form, once again, of cuts. A decision that is incomprehensible, in light of the company’s declarations of wanting to invest in internal talents and want to adopt a socially responsible attitude, attentive to inequalities and inclusion.
We believe that there is another way to bring the accounts back and that it passes from safeguarding the current staff and their involvement in projects that enhance the history of Condé Nast in Italy. Because, as we have shown, we know how to do our job well, guaranteeing our many loyal readers competent and innovative information. On the contrary, today there is a choice to go towards internationally standardized publications, with increasingly reduced spaces for local content. An address that we contest, convinced that a good service to those who choose us, on newsstands or online, is to give space to its history.
For this reason we ask to withdraw the redundancies, to clarify the editorial level and, in general, on the future of Condé Nast Italia, and to involve journalists in decision-making processes that cannot be lowered from above.
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