worried about working conditions during the competition, 150 people demonstrate near Paris

2024-01-17 18:53:30

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Work on Sunday, absence of weekly rest, infernal pace… Employees demonstrated on Wednesday in Saint-Denis, at the call of the CGT, once morest the future working conditions of employees mobilized during the Paris Games.

Published on 17/01/2024 19:53

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Employees demonstrate in Paris, January 17, 2024, once morest the measures taken by the government before the Olympic Games. (STEVEN GOUAILLIER / RADIOFRANCE)

Almost six months before the opening of Paris 2024, nearly 150 people demonstrated at the call of the CGT, Wednesday January 17, in front of the headquarters of the Olympic Games committee in Saint-Denis. The union is concerned regarding the future working conditions of employees who will be mobilized in Paris.

At the heart of their concerns: Sunday work, already provided for by several decrees in sectors such as security or mass distribution. From July 18 to August 24, the “weekly rest may be suspended (…) in establishments experiencing an extraordinary increase in work” twice a month on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, indicates the decree published in the Official Journal November 23, 2023.

“We have no more life followingwards”

If the detailed list of sectors and professions has not, for the moment, been communicated by the General Directorate of Labor, the companies responsible for capturing, transmitting and disseminating the tests will be concerned, as will those ensuring the “activities relating to the organization of events and the operation of sites linked to the organization and staging of the Olympic Games.”

Vincent is a security guard and might be concerned.“I will not go to the Olympics at allhe explains, already because working two weeks in a row is not possible. Public holidays will not even be paid double, so working two weeks in a row without compensation is out of the question.”

Employees demonstrate in Paris, January 17, 2024, once morest the measures taken by the government before the Olympic Games. (STEVEN GOUAILLIER / RADIOFRANCE)

Another decree causes concern for Lofti, a mass distribution employee: that taken by the prefect of the Île-de-France region to allow businesses to open on Sundays between June 15 and September 30, 2024. “We are once morest working on basic Sundays. We have checkout attendants, mothers… With a family life it’s not easy, we no longer have a life followingwards.”

“We are not once morest the Olympics”

However, this movement is not made to oppose the organization of the 2024 Olympics, assures Amar Lagha, general secretary of the CGT commerce and services. “We will not be the slaves of the Olympic Games. Please note, we are not once morest the Olympic Games but we would have preferred that the COJO (Olympic Games Committee) made a statement to tell the government ‘I refuse to use the argument of Olympic Games to call into question the rights of the most precarious of this pays'”.

“Because who will pay the price? asks the secretary general. We’re talking regarding security guards, people who work in restaurants, people who work in hotels, in mass distribution… These are the ones who have paid a heavy price during the Covid-19 crisis.” The manager speaks of a “alert” launched for the moment. But “If the government and employers do not reconsider their proposals, we will take action during the Olympics, there will be strike days.”

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