GFM employees demand five months of unpaid wages
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Employees of Groupe Futurs Médias (GFM) are demanding payment of five months’ wages and denouncing several social measures that have been scrapped since the start of their difficulties. The SYNPICS-GFM section plans a sit-in on 16 November in Dakar, according to the statement reported by Rewmi.
Employees of Groupe Futurs Médias (GFM), a Senegalese media group, are demanding payment of five months of unpaid wages and plan to hold a sit-in on Monday 16 November in Dakar. The mobilisation is due to begin at 5pm outside the El Hadji Elimane Ndour building, according to the statement from the SYNPICS section of GFM reported by Rewmi.
The union section says staff precarity has lasted since November 2023. It cites the suspension of the IPM, the scrapping of the 13th-month payment and the disappearance of meal allowances, while maintaining that journalists, technicians and other employees have continued to produce the group’s content despite these difficulties.
GFM announced a restructuring plan in August 2025 involving pay cuts and job losses amid economic and financial difficulties. Employees are also calling for the modernisation of work tools in the control room, production rooms and newsrooms, according to Rewmi.
