Disneyland Paris: nurses on strike, park activity threatened

A Disneyland Paris nurses' strike rebounded this week in the middle of the summer season.

If the strike continues, it could disrupt the operation of the amusement park.

Since to open, the park is obliged to align a minimum number of employees of this specific health service to be authorized to open.

“On Wednesday, the management had to urgently mobilize firefighters to maintain the activity”, assures Laurent Burazer, elected CFTC at the CSE.

“We fell below the number of nurses essential to be able to be open”.

That day, eight nurses declared themselves strikers out of the 12 supposed to work, while the minimum gauge is five people.

"Internal organizational measures allow us to cover the needs provided for in the safety report", nevertheless reassures the company, which also employs 200 firefighters.

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“If there is no firefighter or nurse, we cannot keep the park open, we are obliged to close”, specifies a trade unionist from the CFDT.

“There is a real risk.

The company wanted to resort to external contractors but there is such a shortage of nurses that it is complicated”.

Fewer rest days for nurses

What ignited the powder was a change in the work rhythms imposed on nurses who, until 2021, benefited from five consecutive days off every 15 days.

From now on, their cycle is more spaced out.

With the new organization, they realized that they couldn't recover,” continues Laurent Burazer.

“They have a real need to cut and they feel more and more tired”.

For another employee, this new organization, however, calls into question the functioning of the nurses, some of whom took advantage of these five days off to do vacations outside the park.

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Threatened by this handful of strikers on whom their 18,000 or so colleagues depend, the management gave three of them a letter on August 3, which AFP obtained.

She invokes in particular a minimum service which "is imposed" on them and recalls that any breach of obligations "may lead to disciplinary sanctions which may go as far as dismissal".