The Louvre Museum did not open its doors on Monday morning due to a staff meeting involving a call to strike over working conditions.
The employees gathered for a general meeting in the morning at the request of a union coalition, and voted "unanimously" to strike, the CGT and CFDT unions told AFP.
According to the two unions, some 400 employees voted for a "renewable strike" to denounce what they consider to be a deterioration of working conditions and the decline in visitor services at the world's most visited museum.
Around 9:00 am, a large number of visitors were waiting outside the museum entrance. A sign indicated that the museum’s opening was “currently delayed”.
The museum's management said it was counting the number of non-striking staff so that it could consider opening the museum on Monday.
