Paris 2024, on alert due to strikes

The president of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG) of Paris, Tony Estanguet, this Wednesday asked for “truce” from workers in different sectorsamong them is transportation, due to possible strikes this summer during sporting events.

“I want us to meet the world in the best possible conditions and not spoil the party” Estanguet declared on the state channel France 2.

For months, the transport, police and health unions have threatened to stage strikes between the opening of the Olympic event, on July 26, until the beginning of September to pay for postponed holidays and overtime in the tag – heat

The chaos was partially resolved in the police sector, where the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced at the end of January a bonus of up to 1,900 euros for police and gendarmes who work in the Île-de-France region, where Paris is located.

In transport, most unions of the state railway company SNCF and the company combining Paris public transport (RATP) They have given a strike notice until the end of the Paralympic Gameswhich ends on September 8.

On the other hand, Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete assured the public radio station France Inter that he was not “concerned”, because “there are no strikes”.

“I do not believe for a moment that workers, employees or unions are endangering the image of France or your company’s image before the whole world,” he predicted.

In his opinion, this way of proceeding “is not all part of the workers’ culture, which is attached to the image of the company and the country when one is a worker or a member of the union.”

To contain strike calls on key dates such as the Olympic Games, the French Executive is considering reforming the right to strike, which Vergriete denied “at this moment” would be implemented.

For Vergriete, reform is the “last resort”, so he preferred to “appeal to responsibility” and announced that he would meet with the unions “in a moment.”