Staff members on strike at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris have to extend their protest as that modern art museum weighs job cuts, Dave Itzkoff reports for the New York Times via Agence France-Presse. On Monday, museum employees and security guards walked off the job, amid fears that more than 400 jobs will be cut at the museum’s Beaubourg building over the next ten years. The French government could reduce the museum’s payroll by not replacing retiring staff members; more than 40 percent of the staff at the Pompidou Center is over the age of fifty, and the legal retirement age in France is seventy. On Tuesday, representatives of the museum staff met with aides to Frédéric Mitterrand, the French culture minister, but a union official told Agence France-Presse that the meeting “did not go well.”

      After a meeting Wednesday with Alain Seban, president of the Pompidou Center, Franck Guillaumet, who heads the cultural section of France’s major union, the Confederation Générale du Travail, said, “The strike must go on.” He added that the job cuts will also affect other big cultural institutions, including the Louvre, Versailles, and the National Library.

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