French trade unions on Tuesday used transport strikes and mass protests to try t...
PARIS - French trade unions on Tuesday used transport strikes and mass protests to try to force President Emmanuel Macron to ditch a planned pension reform before the Christmas holidays.
Former investment banker Macron has said he wants to streamline the Byzantine state pension system with its tangle of special privileges, and use incentives to prod people to work until 64, instead of the average retirement age now of 62. At some stations in the past two weeks, police and security guards had to stop commuters trying to fight their way onto overcrowded trains.
Later on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of trade union supporters were expected to march through central Paris.
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