France Strike

• Nationwide strikes, protests break out in France over government’s pension changes

  French workers would have to work longer before receiving a pension under the new rules — with the nominal retirement age rising to 64 from 62.

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  Jan 19, 2023
  
• French activists disrupt public transportation as pension strike hits day 26

  So packed was one Paris bus one evening that an elderly man with a cane fell out when the doors opened at a stop.

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  Dec 30, 2019
  
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• French activists block 8 oil refineries as pension strike hits day 23

  The current action, at more than three weeks, is now longer than a 1995 transport workers strike that looms large in the nation’s modern history.

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  Dec 27, 2019
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• Pension strike brings France’s transport system to a halt

  Frustrated travellers ran into transportation mayhem across France, as unions dug in for what they hope is a protracted strike against plans to redesign the national retirement system.

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  Dec 6, 2019
• Protests in France over pension reform shuts down transit, Eiffel Tower

  Organizers hope for a mass outpouring of anger at President Emmanuel Macron for his centerpiece reform, seen as threatening the hard-fought French way of life.

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  Dec 5, 2019