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		</div><p>Striking workers again closed down the Eiffel Tower – the third day running that the landmark expected to be at the heart of celebrations for the Paris Olympics has been off-limits to visitors.</p>
<p>A message on the tower’s website also warned of more possible disruptions on Thursday, if strikers continue their push for salary hikes and other concessions.</p>
<p>“We apologise for the inconvenience,” the message said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>One of the strikers’ representatives, Denis Vavassori of the CGT union, has previously warned that the protest action “could go on for several days, even weeks”.</p>
<p>Striking employees are demanding a salary increase proportionate to revenue from ticket sales.</p>
<p>They also want to improve maintenance of the 135-year-old tower, which is showing traces of rust on some of its ironwork.</p>
<p>The tower earns millions of euros annually for the city of Paris, said its owner, Paris deputy mayor Emmanuel Grégoire.</p>
<p>Extended closures during the Covid-19 pandemic deprived the landmark of 130 million euros in revenue, he said – but he insisted that tower maintenance has not suffered as a consequence.</p>
<p>The tower will feature prominently in the Paris Games and the following Paralympics from July 26 to August 11.</p>
<p>The Olympic and Paralympic medals in Paris are being embedded with a piece of the Eiffel Tower in the middle.</p>
<p>Union leaders have repeatedly criticised the tower operator’s business model, saying it’s based on an inflated estimate of future visitor numbers, at the expense of maintenance costs and employees’ pay.</p>
<p>The Eiffel Tower is typically open 365 days a year.</p>
<p>Last year, the monument was closed to visitors for 10 days during massive protests across France against the government’s plan to reform the country’s pension system.</p>
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