US EditionLouvre Museum Staff Go on Daylong Strike, Shutting Out Tourists
Striking staff demand better pay, more workers, and improved security after a $100 million crown jewels theft revealed management failings, union leaders say.
- On Monday, roughly 400 of the Louvre Museum's 2,100 staff blocked the pyramid-shaped entrance, physically preventing entry during a daylong strike.
- Tied to an October burglary of crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, workers demanded higher salaries, bigger staff, and better resource allocation amid security concerns and criticism of museum management.
- Union leaders warned last week that staff `feel that they are now the last line of defense before collapse` and Vanessa Michaut-Valora said `the break-in revealed to the world all of the dysfunction`.
- An average of 30,000 visitors every day were affected as hundreds of employees went on strike Monday, prompting the Louvre's temporary closure and locking visitors out while des Cars, the museum's director, and Jean-Luc Martinez, predecessor and former director, are questioned by senators Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Citing investigators' conclusions, workers argue government investigators found current and previous leadership failed to enact security recommendations and misallocated resources toward refurbishing exhibition spaces and acquiring new art, while internal warnings went unheeded, prompting the strike.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald
West Hawaii TodayLouvre Museum staff go on daylong strike, shutting out tourists
PARIS — Hundreds of employees at the Louvre Museum went on strike Monday, prompting its temporary closure and compounding a sense of crisis that began with the theft in October of crown jewels worth roughly $100 million.
The Museum was closed this morning for general assembly (ANSA)
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Stolen jewels, strikes, misinvestments: France's Louvre is in crisis. An insider explains what goes wrong in the museum.
The Louvre's doors were closed Monday morning due to a general assembly of its staff, who had called for a strike. This is yet another blow for a museum already reeling from the burglary of October 19th and the subsequent exposure of its shortcomings.
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