The last time the Iron Lady had to turn away tourists due to a strike was on December 27.
But on Monday, unions from the Eiffel Tower Operating Company (Sete), according to information from Challenges, filed a renewable strike notice from February 19.
The CGT and Force Ouvrière claim poor financial management of the monument by the Paris town hall, which owns 99% of the capital of Sete.
This contract, signed in 2017, runs until 2030. The unions are more specifically denouncing underestimated work costs and overestimated revenues.
This strike was voted “unanimously” at the general assembly on Monday morning, according to a trade unionist interviewed on Franceinfo.
A model “too ambitious and untenable”
The Eiffel Tower had already closed its doors on the centenary of the death of the engineer Gustave Eiffel, on December 27.
The strike then lasted a day “to denounce the current management which is leading Sete straight into the wall,” the CGT said in a press release.
The union organization already denounced "an overly ambitious and untenable (economic) model", due to an "undervaluation of the works budgets" of the monument, but also an "overvaluation of revenues based on annual attendance objectives of 7.4 million visitors.
Or “attendance levels never before reached”.