French Unions Push for Macron Pensions U-Turn With New Strikes
- Paris restaurant attacked where president celebrated 2017 win
- Unions plan 12th day of protests on April 13 ahead of ruling
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French unions led another wave of strikes and protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, capitalizing on broad public support for a movement that has caused trash to pile up on the streets of Paris and sporadically turned violent.
The bill to raise France’s minimum retirement age by two years to 64 has already passed parliament, but labor organizations plan to keep pressure on the president to back down with a 12th round of action on April 13 — a day before a Constitutional Council ruling on the conformity of the overhaul.