"Following lawyers throwing their robes at the Minister's feet, teachers emptied their bags or threw their textbooks in front of their departmental and academic offices," on its website. "The strike of dockers, porters, and sailors continued, making maritime traffic almost zero. This morning the major construction site of Porte Maillot in Paris was stopped with the employees demanding recognition of the arduousness of their trades.
"It's symbolic. It made a buzz and that's what everyone wants," Franck Jouanno, a CGT-Énergie representative, told local news outlets. "It's not the end of the world to have a power cut. In general it doesn't last more than a morning."that the emergency power kicked on at about 5:30 on Tuesday morning, and the outage lasted for 90 minutes. The market was still operational, despite CGT's best efforts.
Rungis' current location was opened in March 1969, by then-president Charles de Gaulle. The fresh produce market had been in its previous spot in Les Halles for more than eight centuries . And it's huge. For starters, it covers 550 acres, making it bigger than the entire country of Monaco. It services more than 20,000 buyers and some 26,000 vehicles every day and,
Explore France, it supplies 50 percent of the seafood, 45 percent of the fruit and vegetables, and 35 percent of the meats that are served and supplied to the entire city of Paris.the CGT and several other unions have warned that additional protests could be coming on Friday, because that's the day that the government will formally present the pension reform bill to the Cabinet. Today might be a good day for Parisians to check the batteries in their flashlights, just in case.