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The latest walkout in protest against President Macron’s proposed pension reforms has caused Eurostar to cancel a pair of trains between London and Paris. The cross-Channel rail operator said ...
Among those who were on strike were train drivers, school teachers, dock workers, oil refinery workers, as well as garbage collectors continuing their now ten-day strike action. [70] In the afternoon, protesters gathered at the Esplanade des Invalides, [71] with "loud music and huge union balloons". Police had ordered that the build-up of ...
The French government and unions appeared still far apart after talks resumed Tuesday over fiercely contested pension reform proposals that have triggeredrecord-settingstrikes on the country's ...
The walkout was expected to hit transportation the hardest, as flights, trains and buses canceled service and most of the Paris subway system came to a halt. French trains stop as mass strike ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Initially designed to create a unique pension funds system in France, following the protest of the unions, the project has introduced 8 special plans [17] for policemen, aeroplane pilots and stewards, train drivers, firemen, jailmen, truck drivers, fishermen and teachers. These plans were introduced to avoid strikes in critical sectors (police ...
Railway workers in France staged a strike on Thursday, 20 April, in a continuing dispute over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. The French president signed the deeply-unpopular bill raising the ...
2023 Cape Town taxi strike;; 2023 Irn-Bru strike; [29] [30]; 2023 Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital strike; [31] [32]; 2023 Sogo & Seibu strike - strike at the flagship Seibu Department Store in Tokyo in protest over the store's sale to the American Fortress Investment Group, representing the first strike at a major department store in Japan in over 60 years; [33]