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☆ France strikes: Workers walk out in mass protests against plans to raise the retirement age
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Joseph Ataman Marguerite Lacroix Hanna Ziady | Joseph Ataman | Marguerite Lacroix | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Protests in major French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes and Nice, brought transport services to a standstill. 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. Train lines across France were seeing “severe disruption,” according to French rail authority SNCF. Macron’s proposed pension reforms come as workers in France, as elsewhere, are being squeezed by rising food and energy bills. The French government has said that raising the retirement age is necessary to tackle a pension funding deficit.
☆ France faces widespread protests and 'hellishThursday' as anger at pension reform mounts
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Joseph Ataman Marguerite Lacroix | Joseph Ataman | Marguerite Lacroix | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Eight of France’s largest unions - covering transportation, education, police, executives and public sectors - called for Thursday to be the “first day of strikes and protests” against the proposed pensions reform. Widespread strikes are expected, and it may be “a hellish Thursday” on public transport networks, Transport Minister Clement Beaune warned French broadcaster France 2 Tuesday. Paris’ transport authority predicts “very disrupted” service on the city’s transport network. But many have blasted the reforms as ill-timed at best; at worst, an insult to hard-working people in France. “This reform falls at a moment where there is lots of anger, lots of frustration, lots of fatigue.
☆ French government in crisis talks as fuel shortages worsen
  + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Joseph Ataman Marguerite Lacroix Natacha Bracken | Joseph Ataman | Marguerite Lacroix | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Paris CNN Business —French President Emmanuel Macron called a crisis meeting with senior ministers on Monday to address crippling strikes at gas refineries that has caused fuel pumps to run dry. Elsewhere, nearly one third of gas stations have run out of at least one fuel, with the situation expected to worsen this week, according to French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. But French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the strikes were “unacceptable and illegitimate,” because wage agreements had been met with the majority of workers. Transportation minister Clement Beaune told France Inter that the only way out of the crisis is an end to strikes. On Sunday, thousands marched through central Paris to protest the crisis and “climate inaction.”
☆ Nearly 1 in 3 French gas stations out of at least one fuel
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Joseph Ataman Marguerite Lacroix | Joseph Ataman | Marguerite Lacroix | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Paris CNN —Some 28.5% – nearly one third – of gas stations in mainland France are out of stock of at least one fuel, French Energy Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told journalists Friday. A source from the office of the French prime minister on Friday blamed the long lines and exhausted stocks at French gas stations this week on panic buying, rather than just supply problems. This is despite gas companies providing between a 30% and 50% increase in supply of gas to pumps this week, compared to a normal week, the source said. Earlier this week, the French government ordered staff at an ExxonMobil refinery in Normandy to return to work, a highly unusual step. Meanwhile, on Friday, French energy giant TotalEnergies struck a deal with two French trade unions, CFE-CGC and the CFDT, to increase salaries for 2023.
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