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Indeed, it appears that there is some sort of industrial action taking place. I've seen very little other than filler content in the last hour. I did see an edition of Le Journal at the top of the 08h CET hour just now though, along with the new titles.

This notice from two weeks ago from what I believe is the main union that represents fulltime staff at France Médias Monde warned that France 24 was not properly staffed or ready for the big relaunch on March 4. I can't seem to see anything calling specifically for a strike, but the union clearly wanted the relaunch to be delayed.

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Paris Direct's second hour on the English channel today was live.

Apparently some staff at RedBee which handles channel playout were on strike hence the channel essentially being on a lite version yesterday.

Edit: The CFTC union issued a press release confirming this
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