Posted on 02/11/2023 9:26:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Saturday in a fourth day of action against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform, with unions planning to ramp up strikes if the plan is not dropped.
Unlike on the three previous protest days there was no call for a day of nationwide strikes, although air traffic controllers at Paris' second airport staged a surprise walkout that resulted in the cancellation of half of flights.
Macron and his government face a two-way fight to implement the plan to raise to pension age from 62 to 64 by overcoming resistance on the streets and also pushing the legislation through parliament.
The CGT union said that 500,000 people were protesting in Paris alone, higher than the 400,000 it counted on the last protest day on February 7.
The interior ministry, which generally give much lower numbers, said there were 963,000 protesters nationwide and 93,000 in Paris.
There were protests in other French cities up and down the country, with television pictures showing police using water cannons in the western city of Rennes.
Protesters in the French capital took the traditional protest route from Republique Square to Nation Square, behind a banner saying: "No to working longer!".
There were tensions when a car and a bin were overturned and set on fire, prompting shield-wielding police and the fire brigade to intervene.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Guess they will have to import more Muslims /Africans to do the jobs the French don’t want to do
The foreigners are a net negative and consume far more then they contribute.
They get hip to the welfare state really fast and on Tuesdays you can see the line to the social security office (means welfare in France) in the banliues.
It must be nice to work a 3 day week and then get a pension for life.
The frenchies riot/strike all the time and nothing changes.
There is a lot going on over seas that the scumedia hear will not show us
“Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Pay”
A best seller!
Written by an economist at state-owned French utility, Electricité de France, this book rails against corporate conformity and mindless drudgery.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/203276
“Maier was subjected to a disciplinary hearing on 17 August 2004 by her employer, Électricité de France, for the writing and publication of Bonjour Paresse. The French newspaper Le Monde ran a front page article about the dispute at the end of July 2004, which did much to publicize the work.”
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