France disrupted by strikes over pension reform
Strikes and protests have taken place all across France as labor unions protest President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms Read Full Article at RT.com
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Teachers, railway workers and public sector employees abandoned their posts to protest a planned increase in the retirement age
Train services, schools, flights and scores of businesses in France were disrupted on Thursday as labor unions organized mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age to 64, a move bitterly opposed by the French public.
The largest marches took place in Paris, where the CGT trade union estimated that 400,000 people took to the streets. The union claimed that two million protesters marched nationwide, although France’s interior ministry put the turnout at 1.2 million nationwide and 80,000 in Paris.
Amid the demonstrations, police officers clashed with black-clad anarchists, who regularly show up at protests in France to spar with police. Video footage showed armored officers using tear gas and batons on the black-clad bloc and other nearby protesters.
