The strike has been going on since October 16 and will continue for several weeks. The Pompidou Center in Paris is rocked by a social movement due to fear for jobs. The union representatives of the museum of modern and contemporary art, which must close for five years for work from 2025, therefore announced on Thursday the renewal of the strike notice until January 15, we learned on Thursday from union sources , confirming information from Telerama.
“We transmitted the inter-union renewal letter (CGT, CFDT, FO, Unsa, SUD) in person to the Minister of Culture (Rima Abdul Malak) during the ministerial social administration committee” Thursday morning, indicated to AFP a union source. Contacted the Ministry of Culture did not wish to comment.
The staff of the establishment, also called Beaubourg, fear for their jobs and missions and some of them have gone on strike since October 16, causing a few days of closure following this movement.
Gradual closure
Inaugurated almost half a century ago, the Center Pompidou, which is among the most important modern and contemporary art museums in the world, must gradually close from 2025 for major asbestos removal and renovation work, planned until 2030.
The staff affected by the move, 480 out of a thousand in total, must be redeployed to the Grand Palais (under construction and due to reopen in 2024), to collection storage premises in the north of Paris, as well as to the moved library. in a building in the center of Paris, then, for around fifty of them, in a new hub in Massy (Paris region) scheduled to open in the summer of 2026.