US EditionLouvre closes for the day due to strike
Staff strike demands include higher pay, better recruitment, and improved museum maintenance; closures have caused at least €1 million in lost revenue, management said.
- Workers at the Louvre Museum have gone on strike multiple times to demand better pay, conditions, and maintenance of the museum.
- Nearly 140 new hires have been announced since mid-December, and a meeting was scheduled to discuss salary increases.
- The strike closures in December and January have resulted in a loss of at least one million euros in revenue for the museum.
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The Louvre closes its doors again due to a workers' strike
As on Monday, and for the third time since December, the museum, which borders the Seine River, a heritage site, had to announce that it would not open and offer automatic refunds to the thousands of people who were unable to see the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, the Coronation of Napoleon, and other masterpieces. The Louvre workers met early and decided to continue the strike, which cites a lack of staff, resources, and means to perform their d…
After two closures and three partial openings since December 15, the staff of the most visited museum in the world always claim better working conditions to welcome visitors.
This is the third day of closure of the museum, whose agents of the museum call for a "compensatory alignment".
The Louvre Museum is closed this Monday, January 19 because of a strike by the agents. The staff denounces the deterioration of their working conditions. It is the third closure in January.
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