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Airport workers on strike - days before the Olympics

Rani Amir

Updated 21.24 | Published 20.57

On July 17 – nine days before the Olympics begin, several trade unions will go on strike.

The reason is a dispute over salary bonuses.

This is written by the AFP news agency.

On Monday evening, information came from the news agency AFP that several trade unions for airport workers are calling for a strike - just over a week before the Olympics start. This is because the salary bonuses differ from group to group. The trade unions think it is wrong that only certain groups of staff should receive salary bonuses.
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The unions demand that the bonus should go to all airport workers. At the same time, they want to hire 1,000 new employees.

The airports that will go on strike are Charles de Gaulle and Orly. Both airports will receive large parts of the foreign visitors.

In the past, police, air traffic controllers, subway and train drivers, firefighters and workers who are supposed to keep the streets of Paris clean, have all made wage demands just before the Olympics.

Charles de Gaulle airport is one of two Paris airports where a strike is planned the week before the Summer Olympics. Archive image. Photo: Thibault Camus/AP/TT