French unions to meet with government over pension reform

Union leaders at the start of of a demonstration against the government's pension reform in Paris in January 2023. Trade unions have been unified in their opposition to the bill. Most have accepted an invitation to meet with the Prime Minister on Wednesday. © Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Nearly all of France’s trade unions have agreed to meet with French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne next week, though the government has said it will not change its position on its contested pension reform. The changes have not been implemented, pending a decision by the Constitutional council on 14 April.

French President Emmanuel Macron, in his first public appearance in France in two months, said Thursday that “dialogue continues” with trade unions unions who oppose the government's pension reform.