Louvre Workers on Strike

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: February 15, 2007

PARIS, Feb. 14 (Agence France-Presse) — Attendants at the Louvre were on a partial strike Wednesday, demanding a bonus for the stress of marshaling tens of thousands of daily visitors past the Mona Lisa.
Christelle Guyader of the Sud Solidarités union said that with 8.3 million visitors in 2006, “our work is reduced to simply managing the flow.”
This week, strikers posted stickers bearing a picture of a gagged Mona Lisa and the words: “My caretakers have had enough. Give them their due — 150 euros!”
Management at the Louvre said that only 5 percent of the museum’s 1,100 attendants were on strike.

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