Team Macron Ready to Ride Out Anything French Unions Throw at It

Government plans to deliver draft pension law by summer 2020
The prime minister is braced for another winter of protests

Edouard Philippe interviewed in his office in Paris, on Nov. 12.Photographer: Laura Stevens/Bloomberg

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By Helene Fouquet, Ania Nussbaum, and Geraldine Amiel

November 12, 2019 at 11:00 PM EST

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Emmanuel Macron and his team are digging in for another harsh winter.

Train drivers, hospital porters and civil servants are planning strikes in France’s major cities in protest at the president’s plans to change the pension system. Teachers, firefighters and even some police are considering their own action. And the Yellow Vest activists are urging, well, basically anyone with an ax to grind to join in.