Protesters in France make last-ditch effort to block overhaul of pension system
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- French unions protested for a fourteenth day on Tuesday against government plans to raise the retirement age to 64, in what could be a final attempt to pressure lawmakers into scrapping a law that is already on the books.
Thousands staged an initially peaceful demonstration in the city of Nantes, which included union members carrying banners, smoke from red flares, and a choir.
"We haven't yet played all our cards, and I think we need to keep going. We need to go until the end," 64-year-old protester and maintenance worker Jacques Godin said.
President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force the reform through with special constitutional powers prompted angry protests this spring, but the issue has slowly moved down the media agenda, making it harder for unions to mobilize.
Between 400,000 and 600,000 people are expected to turn out at protests across France, authorities said, which would be down from more than a million who took part in marches at the height of the pension protests earlier this year.
Inter-city trains are likely to be only "slightly disrupted," the SNCF railway company said, while the metro network in Paris will run a normal service One-third of flights out of Paris-Orly airport have been cancelled, however.
Global's Alexia Kapralos reports.
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Blocking air traffic OVER France is stupid. Flights can’t go from Uk To Spain because of this air traffic controller strike, but flights are still okay leaving France. Uhhhhh
Its time to make the European differences a little smaller. In the Netherlands we have to work until 67.9 and it rises every year.
That's what happens when you sacrifice family for career and lifestyle.
The next step is to make full retirement age 70.
Молодцы! Настоящие борцы за свободу против глобалистской политики.Французы лидеры в отстаивании прав на достойную жизнь!!!!!!💯❤💙🤍💥
“Whoever comes to me shall never be hungry,"
russia isn't so bad.....
I think the Japanese came up with hybrid cars. zen
64! They should be happy they are not in US. My retirement age is 67!
Canada as well
There's a reason it's 67 in Canada and the USA. People are not united and willing to fight for better, they won't riot, they won't strike.
No you should be doing the same thing!
Yes in Canada we just let the government treat us like the serfs we are.
@@icantwiththis serfs had more backbone than Canucks, canucks are smiling slaves.
Never seen, living around the world a people more passive, apathetic and just bleh than Canadians.
It's absolutely disheartening
Robespierre is alive :D