{"id":354047,"date":"2025-12-17T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354047\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:20:09","slug":"louvre-workers-vote-to-extend-a-strike-as-the-museum-partially-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/354047\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre workers vote to extend a strike as the museum partially reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike<\/a> that has disrupted operations at the world\u2019s most visited museum, though the attraction partially opened Wednesday to allow visitors to enjoy the \u201cMona Lisa\u201d and other highlights.<\/p>\n

The museum said that visitors have started entering the building, where they had access to a limited \u201cmasterpiece route\u201d which includes Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s \u201cMona Lisa\u201d and the famous Venus de Milo.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to a strike, some rooms in the Louvre Museum are … closed,\u201d it said on social media. \u201cWe apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Union workers are protesting chronic understaffing, building deterioration and recent management decisions \u2014 pressures intensified by a brazen crown jewels heist<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

The decision came during a morning general assembly, after workers had adopted the walkout unanimously earlier this week. The museum was shuttered Tuesday for its weekly closed day.<\/p>\n

Tensions have been further sharpened by fallout from the theft of crown jewels<\/a> during a daylight robbery that exposed serious security lapses at the museum.<\/p>\n

Culture Ministry officials held crisis talks with unions Monday and proposed to cancel a planned $6.7 million cut in 2026 funding, open new recruitment for gallery guards and visitor services and increase staff compensation. Union officials said the measures fell short.<\/p>\n

Louvre President Laurence des Cars was scheduled to appear before the Senate\u2019s culture committee later Wednesday as lawmakers continue probing security failures at the museum.<\/p>\n

Des Cars has acknowledged an \u201cinstitutional failure\u201d following the heist but has come under renewed scrutiny after admitting she only learned of a critical 2019 security audit after the robbery. France\u2019s Court of Auditors and a separate administrative inquiry have since criticized delays in implementing a long-promised security overhaul.<\/p>\n

The Culture Ministry announced emergency anti-intrusion measures last month and assigned Philippe Jost, who oversaw the Notre Dame restoration, to help reorganize the museum. The move was widely seen as a sign of mounting pressure on Louvre leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,2592,482,10522,1788,136852,140371,78076,79319,194253,15392,94130,1346],"class_list":["post-354047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-france","tag-general-news","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor","tag-labor-unions","tag-laurence-des-cars","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-louvre-museum","tag-philippe-jost","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-strikes","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}