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What comes next in France’s fight over pension reform?

French unions have vowed to bring France to a standstill in a new round of strikes on 7 March, as they continue to battle President Emmanuel Macron’s contested reforms to the pension system. It is the sixth day of strikes and protests since the year began, and promises to be…

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French unions remain defiant in face of proposed pension reform despite dip in protester numbers

Opponents of France's controversial pension reform plan sought to keep up the momentum on a third day of protests and strikes. However, the numbers taking to the streets were down on the previous week.

Radio France Internationale

France hit by new nationwide strikes against Macron pension reform

‘For the president, it’s easy ... he sits in a chair’

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French unions dig in for pension battle with Macron

Is France back to its old ways?

Reuters

Protests against pension reform must be peaceful, France's largest union says

Protests against a planned pension reform should remain peaceful, the head of France's largest labour union said on Monday, ahead of strikes and demonstrations which could disrupt parts of public life later this week.

Reuters

French unions rally workers for widespread strikes against pensions reform

French unions have called cross-sector strikes and street rallies for 19 January in an announcement made less than two hours after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne unveiled deeply unpopular plans to reform the pension system.

Radio France Internationale

Macron’s pension reform: Necessary changes to an unsustainable system?

Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is set to announce the French government’s pension reform plans on Tuesday, proposals that are likely to continue to prompt controversy. President Emmanuel Macron insists the reforms are needed to salvage a system that is unsustainable in its current form. But many are not convinced.

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French PM Borne to detail controversial pension reform plans

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is to detail plans this week that will effectively make French employees work longer, most likely by raising the retirement age to 64 or 65 from 62 at present. A majority of French oppose the reform and trade unions are threatening industrial action.

Radio France Internationale

Macron presses ahead with pension reform as French discontent swells

French President Emmanuel Macron's government attempts to revive his economic reform drive and score a major political victory this week with a launch of the pension system's overhaul in the face of vehement trade union opposition.

Reuters

New French Greens boss hopes to sink Macron’s unpopular pensions reform

After President Emmanuel Macron pledged to push through France's unpoular pensions reform bill in 2023, Greens party head Marine Tondelier told RFI street protests were the only way to scupper the policy, which would raise the legal age of retirement from 62 to 65 years.

Radio France Internationale

Rush to ‘save’ holidays as French rail bosses negotiate with striking controllers

The French government is pressuring the rail company SNCF to come to an agreement with controllers, or ticket inspectors, who are asking for better recognition of their work. Not backed by unions, the inspectors are threatening to strike again next weekend, over New Year’s

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Rail strike set to paralyze SNCF operations on first weekend of Christmas season

France is bracing itself for a turbulent Christmas as the national railway network's annual pay negotiations get underway, with a first wave of industrial action by train conducters getting underway this weekend, forcing the SNCF to cancel 60 percent of its TGV and Intercity services.

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Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies

Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel supplies as the left-wing CGT union rejected a deal over a pay increase

The Independent UK

Two French unions sign agreement with TotalEnergies, but CGT continues strike

TotalEnergies on Friday said the company had signed a salary agreement with two French unions. With the hardline CGT union walking out of negotiations, however, France continued to face fuel shortages ahead of a general public sector strike next week.

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Two unions reach compromise with oil giant in French strikes

La Défense (France) (AFP) - Two French unions announced a tentative pay rise agreement with oil giant TotalEnergies early Friday following emergency negotiations to end a three-week strike that has emptied the country's petrol stations and sparked a wider backlash to the rising cost of living.

The Independent UK

French unions call for national railway strike over pay

Sud Rail, CGT and CFDT on Friday issued a joint call forindustrial action next month

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Trade unions at impasse with Amazon France over wage negotiations

Among the unions representing Amazon France's 15,500 employees, only one – the CFE-CGC executives' union – this week signed an agreement for a 3.5 percent pay rise. The others say this isn't enough given high rates of inflation.

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France’s largest trade union exhorts Macron to consult civil society to build next term

The president of the CFDT, the largest of France’s five trade unions, has called on newly re-elected President Emmanuel Macron to take into the account the millions of people who voted for him, but who do not agree with him, and has asked for a large social concertation to set…

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