Though protests over pension reforms have roiled France in recent months, demonstrations have been kept largely at bay at one ...
Trade unions and left-wing parties have called on workers to “bring France to a standstill,” for what could be the most widespread strike action against the ... Under the proposed pension overhaul, ...
After months of bitter conflict, France's pension reform bill has been signed into law. That doesn't mean that strike and protests are over, however - here's the latest protest days. The ...
September 1st - the government has stated that it wants to pension reform to ... of flights passing over France - on other days. The general pattern of big strike movements is that strikes become ...
As both the government and unions vowed to stand firm, businesses started counting the costs of the strike ... France in a mass rejection of plans to introduce a single, points-based pension ...
A strike on the Paris metro system two ... intergenerational solidarity. France has a pay-as-you-go pension system, where today’s workers pay for today’s retirees; instead of saving for ...
"Here, when the retirement age was raised to 67 in 2011, the strike lasted four hours ... In 1995, for example, France's first pension reform was withdrawn by Alain Juppé's government because ...
Across France, some 800,000 people marched ... s recent move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Organizers see pension reform as a threat to hard-fought worker rights, while Macron ...
"The strike has begun everywhere," said Eric ... has called the reform "essential" because of deficits forecast for France's pension system over the next 25 years, according to analysis by the ...
This is despite union membership in France hovering at “around ... Despite nationwide protests and strike action, the unions failed to stop pension reform. It was pushed through parliament ...
PARIS (AP) — More than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France on Tuesday ... most visibly an open-ended strike at the SNCF national rail authority.
(Video: Reuters) Since the pension measure was presented, there have been 12 days of protests and strikes across France ... had piled up for days after a strike by garbage collectors.
