On strike for 55 days, the employees of the Louvre Hotels are fighting for their rights

On strike for 55 days, the employees of the Louvre Hotels are fighting for their rights

Louvre Hotels employees have been on strike for 55 days. Among them, the majority of women who struggle with precarious working conditions and wages that put their health at risk.

Their banners denounce a “Salary abuse” or even a “failure to comply with working conditions”. According to the CGT, Currently 24 employees of the Louvre Hotels group are on strike, mostly women, present six days a week opposite the Campanile hotel in Suresnes from 26 May.

A 55-day strike

The group, which belongs to the Chinese giant Jin Jiang, is among the most powerful multinationals in the hotel sector. The strike unites three factories from the Louvre hotels: the Belfry of Suresenes, by Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine) and the Golden Tulip Villa Massalia a Marseille.

For 55 daysthe 24 employees on strike are fighting for it an immediate increase of € 300, seniority bonus it’s a generalization of the night bonus. As inflation continues to rise, “Employees of the Louvre group he can no longer make ends meet “we can read on the website of the CGT for hotels.

Alarming wage and working conditions

This Tuesday, July 19, the strikers of the three hotels gathered outside the Campanile La Villette in Paris to express their solidarity in this common struggle. Among them there are the majority of womenemployed as seamstresses, housekeepers or waitresses.

Rachel Keke, MP Nupes, former housekeeper and forward of the Ibis Batignolles hotel was there to show his support.

The world reported the testimony of several women, highlighting working conditions and pay alarming putting their health at risk. A hotel employee Campanile de Gennevilliers explains:

“Some employees who suffer from back pain don’t take their sick leavebecause daily allowances are often paid with fifteen days or a month late.

“Four years ago, taking out the big sacks of dirty towels, I tore my hip muscle. The doctor offered me a stop, which I refused. I only stop when I feel too much pain.

A striker employed by the hotel Bell tower of Gennevilliers.

This demonstration was also an opportunity to financially support the strikers to compensate their loss of income. “We are losing money, but it gives us respite” joked one of the maids in the columns of the World.

Requested by the newspaper, evokes the management of Louvre Hotels “Strike of minorities” on the scale of a group that almost counts 200 factories and for the moment it does not provide an answer to these statements.

On strike for 55 days, the employees of the Louvre Hotels are fighting for their rights
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Source: Madmoizelle

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