The notice period which ran until December 31 was lifted following a memorandum of understanding and a vote by employees. The movement was started last Thursday by employees to denounce “chronic understaffing”.
The strike of Paris Opera employees to protest against “chronic understaffing” ended Tuesday following a memorandum of understanding signed with management, we learned from reliable sources. “The strike is lifted and the shows Rigoletto (Verdi/Claus Guth) and Play (Alexander Ekman), threatened by a strike notice running until the end of the year, will take place on Tuesday evening at the Opéra Bastille and at the Opéra Garnier»management told AFP. “The strike notice which ran until December 31 was lifted following this memorandum of understanding and a vote by employees in general assemblies in the two theaters”confirmed Régis Cochennec of the Sud Spectacle union.
Started last Thursday by employees to denounce a “chronic understaffing” within the institution, the strike ended on Tuesday “following negotiations which resulted in several advances”specified this union official. The strikers denounced services “bloodless” due to a policy of reducing the number of positions which “brings opera to its knees”according to Mr. Cochennec. They got “that 50 positions vacant since 2022 be filled by June 30, 2025 and a reduction to five positions of the gap between the employment ceiling of 1,484 positions, imposed on the Opera by Parliament and the sub-ceiling “ house” which only has 1,459 full-time equivalent jobs worked”he detailed. This gap was 25 positions until now.
According to Régis Cochennec, management is also committed to “reinforcement of seven fixed-term positions in the event of work overload and large productions”. Employees and their representatives also obtained “a meeting on January 8 at the Ministry of Culture, the supervisory authority, from which they intend to request an increase in the employment ceiling”according to this union representative.
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