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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Patrick

Watch: French rail workers hold strike day as pension dispute continues

REUTERS

Railway workers in France staged a strike on Thursday, 20 April, in a continuing dispute over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.

The French president signed the deeply-unpopular bill raising the state pension age from 62 to 64 into law on Saturday, despite vocal opposition from unions who have called for mass protests - which started in January - to carry on.

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