a rally against the “regression” of labor law as the Olympic Games approach

2024-01-17 15:53:30

Several hundred trade and service workers gathered on Wednesday January 17 in front of the headquarters of the organizing committee for the Olympic Games (COJO), near Paris, to denounce the “deregulation of the labor code” in the run-up to the 2024 Olympic Games (OG).

Sheltered from the rain under awnings, security agents, catering, hotel and mass retail employees, among others, mobilized at the call of the CGT to express their “refusal to be the slaves of capitalism”. They are protesting against a decree allowing the suspension of weekly rest in certain companies during the Games.

Contested by the unions, this exemption from compulsory weekly rest was granted at the end of November by a government decree to companies participating in the broadcast or organization of the Olympic Games for a period of almost a month in the summer. next.

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Punch actions

“If the government does not return” on this decree, Amar Lagha, general secretary of the CGT-Commerce and services, declared: “We will carry out punchy actions throughout the Olympics; we will strike wherever possible. » “Already, in certain sectors, workers are prohibited from taking their leave this summer”he also assured, near a union banner promising “the social fire”, “if the flame of the Olympics burns the labor code”.

Another exemption criticized by the CGT: the possibility for businesses in fifteen districts of Paris to open on Sundays, in “expectation of exceptional attendance” for the Olympic Games, which are held from July 26 to August 11. “Are tourists really going to go to Monoprix, Decathlon? »asked Amar Lagha.

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“We don’t want the Olympics to be used to call into question the lack of social achievements of the most precarious workers”added Amar Lagha, saying his “fear” that the exemptions provided for during the Games do not “become the norm”. “It is not the COJO which is responsible for the law, but we have not heard them contest it”noted the trade unionist to explain the choice of the gathering in Saint-Denis, in front of the headquarters of the COJO, of which the former leader of the CGT Bernard Thibault is a member.

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