Workers on the Lodge du Collectionneur, the place members of the IOC are staying, have staged a protest hours earlier than the beginning of the Video games
Workers at a five-star lodge in central Paris booked by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) staged a strike on Thursday, simply sooner or later earlier than the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Round 30 cooks, waiters, and technical workers held a two-hour protest on the luxurious Lodge du Collectionneur on Thursday morning throughout breakfast service.
In a video posted by commerce union the CGT on its official X (previously Twitter) account, workers members had been seen lining a lodge hall demanding a pay enhance and social advantages. They held indicators studying “Luxurious lodge, poverty wages” and “No thirteenth month, no Olympics!” The latter refers to a bonus most employers in France pay their employees on the finish of every calendar yr. Putting employees have reportedly additionally distributed leaflets explaining their motion among the many lodge’s clients, in an try to achieve help for his or her calls for.
In accordance with the CGT, the lodge’s workers haven’t obtained a wage elevate for seven years, and have had 5 rounds of negotiations on the matter with their employer since mid-June. The newest spherical happened on Wednesday, however didn’t lead to a breakthrough. Media experiences declare that the employees had been provided a 2% wage enhance, however rejected it as too low, which led to the strike. Thursday’s protest was the fourth such incident on the lodge up to now month and a half.
Un débrayage des salariés de l’Hôtel du Collectionneur (Paris 8e) est actuellement en cours.Il s’agit de l’Hôtel privatisé par le Comité Worldwide Olympique pour 22 tens of millions d’euros.Les salariés demandent des augmentations de salaires. pic.twitter.com/G7WPL5NGXv
— UD CGT PARIS (@UdCgtParis) July 25, 2024
The union claimed that the IOC has paid the lodge €22 million ($23.88 million) for unique use of the ability during the Paris Olympics, which begin on Friday. The committee is predicted to host a number of occasions on the lodge over the following two and a half weeks, and there are reportedly considerations that additional strike motion might disrupt the deliberate actions.
In an announcement late on Thursday, the administration of the lodge tried to reassure its shoppers, stating that negotiations with the unions “are underway” and that “our groups stay mobilized and dedicated to making sure that our companies run easily.”
