Second day of closure of the Eiffel Tower due to employee strike

O Eiffel Tower It closed this Tuesday for the second day in a row due to a strike by employees of SETE, the concession company, which aims to denounce the poor financial management of the monument.

The search for a “viable and realistic economic model” was the reason given by the two monument employee unions General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and Workforce (FO) when they presented the strike notice a week ago.

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Among their demands, they complained about an insufficient budget for the management and maintenance of the Eiffel Toweras well as an exaggerated estimate of expected income, as it is based on an assumption of 7.4 million visits per year, which has never been achieved.

The crisis of covidaccording to the plants, it generated a greater imbalance between revenues and expenses, caused by losses of 120 million of euros in 2020 and 2021 due to the lack of tourists.

Unions criticized the Paris City Hall, 99% shareholder AND YOUfor not wanting to sit down and negotiate.

The concessionaire, which employs around 360 people, faces this strike at a time when it is renegotiating financial parameters with the Chamber from which it received 60 million euros to reinforce its capital and a 20% increase in ticket prices is expected.

The unions hope that a solution will be found before the Olympic Games.

Source: Elcomercio

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