{"id":356928,"date":"2025-12-20T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:20:07","slug":"louvre-in-paris-reopens-as-museum-staff-pause-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356928\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre in Paris reopens as museum staff pause strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 The <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/louvre-strike-breaking-point-explainer-3a29259b3d13b6619c7c423a5b11c3f3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louvre in Paris<\/a> reopened fully on Friday after staff voted to suspend a strike that had disrupted access to the world\u2019s most visited museum, management and unions said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken during a general assembly of museum workers, who voted unanimously to pause the strike to allow the museum to welcome visitors, unions said in a statement. The walkout had led to a full closure earlier in the week and a partial reopening on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Unions said the suspension followed five meetings with Culture Ministry officials but said progress remains insufficient, particularly on staffing levels, pay and long-term security plans. They also cited concerns over building deterioration and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Union representatives criticized what they described as a lack of engagement from Louvre President Laurence des Cars during the strike, saying she neither met staff nor addressed them during the mobilization.<\/p>\n<p>Workers are due to hold another general assembly on Jan. 5 to decide whether to resume strike action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 The Louvre in Paris reopened fully on Friday after staff voted to suspend a strike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75,637,2841,16943,26671,154245,63368,13782,44334,883],"class_list":["post-356928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-france","tag-general-news","tag-international-news","tag-labor-unions","tag-laurence-des-cars","tag-louvre-museum","tag-paris","tag-strikes","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}