By: Jessie Liang

The Paris Olympic games of 2024 are going to begin on July 26th, and the FSA-CGT union, a group that is responsible for the planning and management of the Olympic games, are full-on panicking about a strike. Why are they panicking rather than happy? What is the problem? Who is causing it?

On July 22nd, 2024, hundreds of dancers that were preparing and rehearsing for the Paris Olympic games Opening Ceremony beside the banks of Paris’s River Seine stopped their ballet rehearsal mid-action when an angry strike suddenly broke out amongst the dancers due to inequalities of the dancer’s payment, and housing conditions between different dancers.

On that day around 200 dancers furiously were seen furiously standing along the River Seine with their fists raised high in the air as an act of refusal against their low salary and bad housing conditions for different dancers and kept still for eight minutes straight.

The Time Magazine reports that the dancers are not the only ones that are on strike and protesting, these people also include unionized drivers, demanding the rights of reserved line usage in Paris, demanding strikes from several of France’s main airport’s staff for a raise and award bonuses during the Olympics period,etc. It seems like the 2024 Olympics is causing quite some chaos.

One of the representatives of the FSA-CGT, the group in charge of planning and management, reports that the opening ceremony isn’t completely “safe” from the protests yet. The finance department might have to raise their salary. Chances are that the dancers might stop performing and quit, and the $10 billion spent on the sites, equipment and hiring workers wasted. But the chances of satisfying the dancers are still high, do what you can do and there won’t be any issues, just treat your staff well!

Luckily, the dancers showed up in all kinds of colorful costumes, on the day of the Olympics opening ceremony, (July 26, 2024) and produce a wonderful show! Such a huge relief for all!

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