Staff working at the Louvre have called a strike for December 15 in protest at deteriorating working conditions and inadequate resources, French media reported on Monday.
They are demanding that new jobs be created primarily in the areas of reception and security "to make good the jobs lost in the past," a trade union representative told the Le Monde newspaper.
"The teams in reception and in monitoring are at the end of their tether, as there is a lack of sufficient staff," she said.
The strike call follows a number of incidents at the famous Paris museum. On October 19, crown jewels from France’s imperial period were stolen. A number of suspects are in custody, but there is no trace of the jewels, valued by the Louvre at €88 million ($102 million).
Last month, a gallery ha…
Staff working at the Louvre have called a strike for December 15 in protest at deteriorating working conditions and inadequate resources, French media reported on Monday.
They are demanding that new jobs be created primarily in the areas of reception and security "to make good the jobs lost in the past," a trade union representative told the Le Monde newspaper.
"The teams in reception and in monitoring are at the end of their tether, as there is a lack of sufficient staff," she said.
The strike call follows a number of incidents at the famous Paris museum. On October 19, crown jewels from France’s imperial period were stolen. A number of suspects are in custody, but there is no trace of the jewels, valued by the Louvre at €88 million ($102 million).
Last month, a gallery had to be closed on account of rotten beams. And over the weekend it became known that between 300 and 400 journals and documents in the Ancient Egypt library had been damaged as a result of a leak.
The museum said the cultural heritage items in the library were not damaged and that the documents would be dried out, repaired and replaced. It blamed an obsolete hydraulics system due for replacement from September next year.