Strikes are a good thing. They ensure the people doing the work also benefit from the work. In this case they are asking for bonuses for the extra work associated with the Olympics. With the amount of money that changes hands around the Olympics this is probably a small amount.
Worth also pointing out that these bonuses are being given to other government employees, namely the police, but not the workers making the medals. The workers are only asking to be compensated in line with others.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Already set with pieces of the Eiffel Tower, the medals for this summer’s Paris Olympics will now be infused with another quintessential feature of French life: strike action.
Dozens of workers at the French national mint, which is making the medals, are demanding the same “Olympics bonus” being paid to police officers and other government employees.
The mint denied that production was affected for the roughly 5,000 gold, silver and bronze medals — each containing an 18-gram hexagonal piece of iron taken from the Eiffel Tower.
The French are famously unafraid of strikes and direct action, from the “Gilet Jaune” movement to the farmers currently spraying government buildings with manure.
According to current plans, the Games will begin with a 10,000-athlete, 90-boat flotilla down the river Seine — the first time the inaugural part will happen outside of a single venue.
But French charity the Surfrider Foundation said Monday that its tests had found often double and sometimes triple the permitted level of harmful bacteria in the river.
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The biggest unions decided a while back to have a massive strike right at the start of the games. I really hope they keep their word and fuck shit up.
Where did they remove the metal from on the Eiffel Tower?
