Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve plans to make people work longer for their pension and tax the rich more instead.since mid-January, striking workers also disrupted garbage collection in Paris and blocked river traffic on part of the Rhine river in eastern France.
If the Council gives its approval, possibly with some caveats, the government will be entitled to promulgate the law, and will hope this will eventually put an end to protests, which have at times turned violent, and coalesced “We don’t want to work until 64,” 50-year-old teacher Kathy Brochard said at the Paris rally.French rail workers enter LVHM headquarters.
Macron has said he will organize a meeting with unions after the Council’s decision to work on other proposals — an initiative union leaders say will be short-lived if he is not ready to discuss withdrawing the pension legislation. Political observers say the widespread discontent over the government’s reform could have longer-term repercussions, including a possible boost for the far right.“I’m not that optimistic about the Constitutional Council’s decision,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who opposes the pension legislation, told BFM TV. “But what do you want me to do? Burn cars? We’ll just tell the French: Vote for the National Rally.