The president of Organizing Committee of the Paris Olympic Games, Tony Estanguet, He asked that no strikes be carried out during the sporting event, after threats from unions and politicians.
The French capital will host the Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11, and the Paralympics from August 28 to September 8.
In an interview on the network France Televisions, Estanguet He stated that he wanted to “welcome the world in the best possible conditions” and without “spoiling the party.”
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When asked if he wanted a “social truce” during the date, he answered “yes.” The radical left deputy Mathilde Panot In February, he encouraged the French to strike during the Olympic Games, in the face of a government “that does not listen to anything or anyone.”
“I’m not completely surprised, the Olympic Games are an incredible platform,” Estanguet reacted. “We cannot welcome the world with such ambition without having any discomfort,” he acknowledged.
“In general, people are eager, they play along, they will organize themselves so that this party is beautiful and we hope it will be like this until the end,” said the triple Olympic champion.
For several months, transport, police and health unions have been threatening to carry out strikes between the opening of the Olympic event, on July 26, until the beginning of September to compensate for postponed vacations and summer overtime.
The unrest has been partially resolved in the police sector, for which the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, announced at the end of January a bonus of up to 1,900 euros for police and gendarmes working in the Île-de-France region, where Paris is located.
In transport, the majority unions of the state railway company SNCF and the company that groups public transport Paris (RATP) have already given notice of a strike until the end of the Paralympic Games, which will conclude on September 8.
On the other hand the Minister of Transport, Patrice Vergriete, He assured public broadcaster France Inter that he was not “at all worried” because “there will be no strikes.”
“I do not believe for a moment that workers, employees or unions endanger the image of France or the image of their company before the entire world,” he predicted.
In his opinion, this way of proceeding “is not at all part of the workers’ culture, attached to the image of the company and the country when one is a worker or union member.”
To contain strike calls on key dates such as Olympic Games, the French Executive considered carrying out a reform of the right to strike, which Vergriete denied was going to be implemented “for the moment.”
For Vergriete, the reform is the “last resort”, so he preferred to “appeal to responsibility” and announced that he will meet with the unions “shortly.”
Source: Ambito
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