What: On the day of Christmas décor illuminations, inter-union employees of Galeries Lafayette protest for a reevaluation of their wages.

Why it is important: Following the department store’s achievement of exceeding 1 billion in sales, 500 Galeries Lafayette union workers gathered in the Boulevard Hausmann location to demand a reevaluation of wages with the intention continue the movement on Black Friday should the department store chain refuse their negotiations.

The store on Boulevard Haussmann is the spearhead of a network of 57 points of sale in France, of which 19 units are directly operated and 38 addresses run as franchises.

Inter-union workers strike in Paris department stores