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Eiffel Tower closed again as staff extend strike

The Eiffel Tower will remain closed for a second straight day Tuesday as staff extend a strike. There was every chance that the monument would also stay shuttered on Wednesday, a union representative said.

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Eiffel Tower Closed Again As Staff Extend Strike: Union

The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's top tourist attractions, will remain closed for a second straight day Tuesday as staff extend a strike, a union representative said. The strike started Monday in protest over the way the monument is managed financially.

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Strike closes Eiffel Tower again as staff denounce financial management

Employees at the Eiffel Tower are on strike Monday to protest against the way the monument is managed financially. The strike has closed the tower for the second time in two months, and comes as Paris is getting ready to welcome millions of visitors for the Olympic Games.

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Argentines Down Tools In First Major Challenge To Budget-slashing Milei

Argentine President Javier Milei faces the first major challenge to his budget-slashing policies Wednesday as workers are expected to down tools in their thousands and take to the streets in protest.

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Protesting Police Underline Paris Olympics Strike Risk

Hundreds of police officers protested across France on Thursday to press their claim for extra pay during this year's Paris Olympics, underlining the threat of strikes and disruption to the Games.

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Argentina Court Suspends Milei Labor Reforms

Argentine judges on Wednesday suspended labor law changes that form part of a mega-decree of sweeping economic reforms and deregulation announced by the country's new libertarian president, Javier Milei.

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French union urges civil disobedience to denounce Macron's immigration law

France's powerful CGT trade union has called for nationwide "civil disobedience" following the adoption by parliament of an immigration law designed to toughen conditions for foreigners living in or moving to France.

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'We Have To Endure' - Argentines Stoic As Prices Skyrocket

Maria Mamani carries a fistful of new price stickers around a supermarket after Argentina's government slashed the value of the peso in half as part of "shock" therapy to the ailing economy.

International Business Times

Migrant workers describe squalor and exploitation on Champagne vineyards

Authorities in France's Champagne region are investigating conditions on its famed vineyards after seasonal workers were found to be lodged in squalid accommodation. Now preparing to testify against their former employer, labourers told RFI about their gruelling experiences picking some of the world's most expensive grapes.

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iPhone 15: Apple workers strike in France ahead of biggest launch of the year

Employees are demanding better pay and working conditions

The Independent UK

As a UK property seller living abroad am I liable for ‘sneaky stealth taxes’ such as CGT?

I lived abroad for 20 years but will return this tax year to sell my sole UK home

The Guardian - UK

Who is Marylise Léon, the new boss of France's largest trade union?

France’s two main trade unions are now led by women after Marylise Léon on Wednesday took the helm of the reformist French Democratic Confederation of Labour, the CFDT – France’s largest union. Her promotion comes three months after Sophie Binet was elected general secretary of the hardline CGT.

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Paris Olympics HQ rattled by police raids amid allegations of fraud

The headquarters of the organising committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been searched by police in connection with an investigation into the misappropriation of public funds and favouritism. This comes as 10 previously undocumented workers take major companies behind the construction of Olympic sites to an industrial tribunal…

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France hopes to get people back into work with 'new' jobseeker agency

The French government is due to present its "full employment" bill to the Council of Ministers this Wednesday in legislation that will create France Travail – the successor to Pôle Emploi, the national jobseeker service.

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French pension reform protests falter despite anger

Around 300,000 people took part in protests in Paris on Tuesday according to the CGT union, the lowest turnout since protests against the government's unpopular pension reform started at the beginning of the year.

The Independent UK

Protests in France as unions make last-ditch bid to resist higher retirement age

French unions are seeking to reignite resistance to President Emmanuel Macron’s higher retirement age with what may be a final surge of nationwide protests and scattered strikes

France 24

Cannes’s ‘essential workers’ stage Carlton protest as French pension battle hits festival

A relentless downpour threw a wet blanket on the world’s premier film festival on Friday, but it did not stop Cannes’s “essential workers” from staging a protest outside the Riviera town’s most emblematic palace hotel – a prelude to a larger rally scheduled on Sunday.

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Away from the Cannes glamour, hospitality staff protest over harsh conditions

French hospitality workers demonstrated on Friday at a five-star hotel a few blocks from the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet to draw attention to the difficult working conditions in the shadows of the glamour.

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Pension reform defiance brings new blood to French trade unions

France's unions may have failed to derail President Emmanuel Macron's push to raise the retirement age, but they are reaping big gains in new members thanks to the months-long battle.

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Opening a 'Cannes' of worms: scandal and tension at the film festival

The Cannes Film Festival is set to open later today with the usual dose of scandal, intrigue and celebrity magic. American actor Johnny Depp will make his comeback as Louis XV, while anti-government demonstrators threaten to defy the ban on protests during the annual homage to cinema.

France 24

Indy, Scorsese and an African revival: What to expect from Cannes 2023

The Cannes Film Festival is poised to launch a blockbuster 76th edition on Tuesday stacked with celebrated auteurs and Hollywood star power, confident that it has weathered the Covid pandemic and upheld its status as the guardian of the big screen. In a belated and welcome sign of change, this…

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Why French trade unions wield political clout despite low membership

Trade union membership in France has been declining since the 1980s and is now one of the lowest in western Europe. And yet unions can still mobilise widespread strikes and demos, as the recent pension reform protests proved. What's behind this French paradox?

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French police fire tear gas as May Day rallies turn violent

France was gripped by widespread May Day protests on Monday as unions joined forces to call for “tidal wave” street marches to force the government to repeal an unpopular pensions law that was rammed through parliament by decree.

AFP

Clashes erupt at French May Day protests against Macron

Paris (AFP) - Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for Labour Day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform.

Newsroom.co.nz

'Groundbreaking' study poses the big tax question

Revelations the wealthy pay half the tax rate of ordinary Kiwis will pour gasoline on what was already a fiery debate heading into the election, writes political editor Jo Moir

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