French workers walk out in mass strikes against plans to raise the retirement age | CNN Business

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Protests in major French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice, brought transport services to a standstill. The country’s energy network was also under strain.

Trains and flights were canceled in France, primary schools shut and thousands of police officers deployed as labor unions held nationwide strikes Thursday to protest the government’s plan to raise the retirement age for most workers. Eight of the biggest unions had called for a “first day of strikes and protests” against pension reforms unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Nurses and ambulance drivers in the United Kingdom are also striking on Thursday over pay and working conditions. Thousands took part in mass demonstrations on the streets of Paris last year protesting the cost of living, and strikes by workers demanding higher pay caused fuel pumps to run dry across the country a few months ago. “This reform falls at a moment where there is lots of anger, lots of frustration, lots of fatigue.

 

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Oligarchs will have to learn a very hard lesson in advanced countries. They MUST share the wealth or risk losing it all.

let's bankrupt all of europe so ukraine can get 20km of land back that stalin gave them in 1937. ok.

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