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Debate: French pension reforms: what future do the country's trade unions hold?

Slowly but surely, France’s mass protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform appear to be petering out. Following two months of unrest, the president’s flagship bill, which aims to raise the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years old starting from 2030, prompted 480,000 people (1,7 million according to the…

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Rubbish piles up in streets of Paris as France’s pension battle enters final stretch

A protracted strike by rubbish collectors has added a new twist to France’s festering dispute over pension reform as the battle over President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular reform enters a make-or-break week with tonnes of uncollected garbage piling higher by the day.

France 24

Mountains of rubbish in Paris as garbage collectors strike over pension reform

Thousands of tonnes of rubbish have piled up on streets across the French capital after a week of strike action by waste collectors against the government's pension reform – a key plank of President Emmanuel Macron's second term.

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Garbage piles up in France’s ‘City of Lights’ as pension strikes continue

Thousands of tonnes of garbage has piled up on streets across the French capital after a week of strike action by dustbin collectors against government pension reforms, city hall said Sunday.

France 24

French Senate approves Macron’s pension plan amid new protests

Unions call for an additional day of strikes and protests as Senate vote brings pension plan closer to becoming law.

Al Jazeera

French strike disrupts Rhine river traffic

Rhine river traffic came to a standstill in some places on Wednesday due to strikes against French government plans to raise the pension age, with sections of the river in France, Germany and Switzerland affected, a CGT union representative and Germany's Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSA) said.

Reuters

Women's rights fuel rolling strikes on French pension reform

Back-to-back strikes against French pension reform carried into International Women's Day on Wednesday – causing major disruptions to transport in particular – as the government’s bill to raise the retirement age to 64 won a major boost in the Senate overnight.

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More than 1.2 million march in France over plan to raise pension age to 64

Protesters aim to ‘bring France to standstill’ as President Macron struggles to delay retirements by 2 years

The Guardian - UK

Tens of thousands join strikes across France over Macron’s plan to raise pension age

More than 250 protests are also expected around the country – with some unions calling for rolling action

The Independent UK

French pension reform strikes again halt trains, shut schools

Most trains have come to a halt and power production reduced in France as unions organise a sixth day of nationwide strikes.

The New Daily

French strikes against pension reform to continue as unions intensify fight

France was partly brought to a standstill on Tuesday as millions of protesters took to the streets in one of the biggest strike actions yet. Rejecting the government’s proposed pension reform bill, which includes raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, workers across all sectors turned out in…

France 24

Massive protests against government pension reform plans paralyse France

Hundreds of thousands of people marched as strikes disrupted transport and schools in France on Tuesday during protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to push back the retirement age to 64.

Radio France Internationale

Demonstrators set to paralyse France in massive pension reform protests

France’s trade unions were headed for a crucial face-off with President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, with fresh strikes and protests planned against a controversial pensions reform he has championed.

France 24

France braces for massive strike in pension reform showdown

French trade unions are preparing for another clash with President Emmanuel Macron over his controversial pension reform, with widespread strikes from Tuesday aiming to bring the country "to a standstill".

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France braces for strikes that could bring the country ‘to a standstill’ for days on end

Strikes against bitterly contested plans to reform pensions in France continue on Tuesday, and this time unions have upped the ante. Unlike previous walkouts, this week’s industrial action has no pre-arranged end date. With workers across multiple sectors expected to strike, life in France could grind to a halt for…

Foreign Policy

France’s Labor Pains

Despite more than a month of paralyzing strikes, France’s unions are bleeding members, influence, and prestige.

The Independent UK

France's 5th day of pension reform protests tests resolve

A fifth day of nationwide strikes and protests across France Thursday tested the government’s resolve on a controversial pension reform, the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term

Radio France Internationale

Small French towns send out big message in rejecting pension reforms

The recent protests and strikes making the headlines are in Paris and other big cities, but people in more than 200 towns in France took to the streets on Tuesday to oppose President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. In Compiègne – an imperial town some 90kms north of the capital, a…

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Radio France Internationale

French unions remain defiant in face of proposed pension reform despite dip in protester numbers

Opponents of France's controversial pension reform plan sought to keep up the momentum on a third day of protests and strikes. However, the numbers taking to the streets were down on the previous week.

Radio France Internationale

French unions call for two more days of action in fight against pension reforms

Leading French unions on Tuesday night announced two separate days of action against Emmanuel Macron's plans to revamp the country's pensions system

The Independent UK

France hit by new nationwide strikes against Macron pension reform

‘For the president, it’s easy ... he sits in a chair’

Tribune News Service

France hit by new strikes as pension reform opposition grows

French labor unions are leading a second day of mass strikes and protests on Tuesday against raising the retirement age in a test of the momentum driving defiance to Emmanuel Macron’s signature economic reform.

Reuters

Strikes over pensions to disrupt public transport in France on Tuesday

Labour union strikes in France over the government's planned pensions overhaul will cause heavy disruption to public transport on Tuesday, the transport minister and several public transport authorities said on Sunday.

Radio France Internationale

France braces for new round of strikes as pension reform polemic continues

Galvanised by the success of their first downing of tools against pension reforms earlier this month, trade unions are calling for new demonstrations across France from Tuesday and threatening more industrial action into February.

France 24

‘Robin Hood’ energy strikers give free power to French schools, hospitals, low-income homes

Amid national strikes in the energy sector, some workers in France have found a novel way to protest. On Thursday, "Robin Hood" operations – unauthorised by the government – provided free gas and electricity to schools, universities, and low-income households throughout the country.

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