Paris was hit with its largest transport strike in more than a decade as opposition got underway to a series of reforms planned by President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron’s summer was largely taken up with foreign-policy issues, but he’s wary of sparking a repeat of last year’s anti-tax protests by the so-called “Yellow Vests.” Those forced him into the first policy U-turns of his two years in office. Macron’s government has been bending over backward to promise consultations with unions and business organizations before presenting a pension law to parliament in the first half of next year.
While most French must wait until 62 before being able to receive retirement benefits, some Paris transport workers can retire at 51. The average retirement age for a Paris transport worker is 53, according to a report by the Senate, compared with a national average of 63 for all workers. The average pension for a Paris transport worker is 3,700 euros a month, the Senate said, almost three times the national average.
“Whatever happens, we have to tell French people the truth: Given demographic changes and the link between workers and pensioners, we will have to work for longer,” Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on TF1 television Thursday.
WTH you say. Do you mean to say this isn’t news on any MSM networks, not even on the banners running on TV.
How do you run a country with disruptions like this?
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