{"id":3319,"date":"2010-10-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2010\/10\/21\/media-war-for-marseilles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:30:31","slug":"media-war-for-marseilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2010\/10\/21\/media-war-for-marseilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Media war for Marseilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The advert, published in <em>Les Echos<\/em>, continues with a description of an 18 hour week, eight weeks vacation and a salary of \u20ac4,000 per month. However, unions have dismissed it as misleading, and have said that a 151 hour working week for a gross salary of around half the amount quoted is nearer the mark.<\/p>\n<p>The media war has come about as a result of the three week strike at the port, a campaign by the workers called \u201cHands of my port\u201d, and more than 50 oil tankers waiting outside Marseilles, all following attempted port reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Among other moves, the workers\u2019 CGT union is resisting plans to create a subsidiary to run the terminals, despite Marseille Port Authority assurances that it will hold a majority stake in the new company and that the jobs of the 220 staff will be maintained.<\/p>\n<p>It all comes against a wider background of French industrial unrest against plans to reform the pension system, with more protests from a number of bodies, including the railways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe best job in the world\u201d is the title of an advertisement published by the employers at Marseilles Fos-sur-Mer &#8211; followed by an offer of a job as a crane driver at the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}