French strikers maintain pressure to reject pension plan
Source: AP
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PARIS (AP) — French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others were holding further strikes on Wednesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, in efforts to keep up pressure on the government amid the ongoing parliamentary debate.
New protest actions focused on women — and the retirement reform’s impact on working mothers — were expected Wednesday, to coincide with International Women’s Day. Feminist activists see the pension reform as unfair to women, especially because they say it would further deepen gender inequalities faced during their career.
A march called by women rights’ groups was scheduled Wednesday afternoon in Paris.
The continuing strikes and protest actions come after more than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France on Tuesday, in what unions see as the biggest show of force against the planned changes since the beginning of the movement in January.
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Where are the protests in the US about rising the age for Social Security?
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