Paris 2024 Olympic Games: the CGT will file strike notices in the public service for the period of the games

Europe 1 with AFP 9:34 a.m., March 7, 2024, modified at 9:37 a.m., March 7, 2024

The CGT, unhappy with the state of social dialogue, will file strike notices in the three public functions at the beginning of April for the period covering the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), confirmed its general secretary, Sophie Binet, on Thursday .

“We want the government to take immediate measures to ensure the success of the Games, for which the CGT has been working for years. To do this, our warnings must finally be heard and the games must be prepared from a social point of view” , declared Sophie Binet on

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“We've been repeating the same thing for months and no one cares. It's starting to get very tiring,” continued the number one of the CGT.

“The Games are hundreds of thousands of workers who are affected,” explained the union leader.

“First of all those who will have to work much more than usual with overtime, paid leave that they will not be able to take. And so for these, we ask what are the social conditions of this work , how are we going to accommodate all the workers who will have to come to Ile-de-France for the Olympics?" asked Sophie Binet.

The Olympics, a “social challenge”

“How are we going to take care of their children while it is the school holidays? What bonuses are they going to get? For the moment, there is nothing in place on this front,” she lamented again.

Sophie Binet, who sent a "red card" to the government on Sunday on the social preparation of the Olympics, is asking for the organization of a meeting in Matignon on "the social challenge" of the Olympics.

The president of the organizing committee for the Paris Olympic Games, Tony Estanguet, requested a social “truce” during the Olympics at the end of February.

Negotiations have been underway for several months in different sectors to address a social conflict in the police, transport and hospitals in order to compensate for postponed vacations and summer overtime.

A bonus, up to 1,900 euros, was for example announced on January 30 by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin for police officers and gendarmes working in Ile-de-France.

But the question is not completely resolved in other sectors.