Air traffic in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport, also known as Roissy, was disrupted starting at noon (11 a.m. GMT) on Thursday due to the strike by employees of the Aeroports de Paris (ADP) group, Le Monde reports.
The strike is expected to last for 24 hours and reduce a number of flights by 20 percent by Friday morning. The ADP group manages three airports in the French capital: Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget.
Airport workers are on strike after the company’s management decided to freeze their salaries in 2015, despite a last week financial report revealed that the company is doing well financially. The company’s net profit was at least $400 million in 2014.
“Over 60 percent of all the profit will go to shareholders. We want employees also receive some benefits,” says Fabrice Michaud, a representative of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), a national trade union center in France, as quoted by Le Monde.
Allegedly, the company’s management asked workers to sit down and discuss terms of their contracts on Wednesday, but the trade union refused to negotiate.
