Paris 2024: CGT warns of social conditions during Games

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) has decided to take advantage of the hundred days before the 2024 Paris opening ceremony to put pressure on the government. A torchlight march brought together several hundred trade and service workers, as well as civil servants, late Monday, April 15, in Paris to denounce violations of labor laws during the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) and to demand bonuses.

With red vests on their backs and whistles in their mouths, security agents, civil servants, catering, hotel and mass retail workers demonstrated from Opéra Garnier to City Hall, with the slogan d’order. “No social regression during the Olympics”, Agence France-Presse reported. Carrying the symbolic torches of the Olympic flame, they marched behind a promising banner. “Social Fire” If “The flame of the Olympics burns the labor code”.

Employers like the state are asking their employees mobilized for the Olympics to work on Sundays or at night, giving up vacation time in the months before and during the games. to come and strengthen the workforce in the Paris region without guaranteeing them housing, CGT General Secretary Sophie Binet listed to the demonstrators, adding that “CGT won’t allow it”. “We defend our rights, we defend the Olympics, and we must not give up our rights in the name of the Olympics”He continued, asking the government to include a roundtable on organizing the Games in its social agenda as soon as possible.

A CGT number recalled this request for such a meeting this morning on France 2: “The Games, yes, but we must respect the specifics of the Olympic Games, which were supposed to be exemplary from a social and environmental point of view. The CGT fought to have a social charter, but the problem is that it is no longer used because there are no negotiations, neither in the public nor in the private sector, on the social conditions for organizing the Olympic Games.said M.^I Binet. he demanded “Premium for necessary restrictions for Olympic employees”Like what was done to the police and customs officials.

Several hundred people have already gathered on January 17 for the same reason in front of the headquarters of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Saint-Denis (Saint-Saint-Denis).