PARIS/SAINT-NAZAIRE , Jan 31 — Striking workers disrupted French refinery deliveries, public transport and schools today in a second day of nationwide protests over President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to make people work longer before retirement.
“We won’t drive until we’re 64!” bus driver Isabelle Texier said at a protest in Saint-Nazaire on the Atlantic coast. Opinion polls show a substantial majority of the French oppose the reform, but Macron intends to stand his ground. The reform was “vital” to ensure the viability of the pension system, he said on Monday.
For unions, the challenge will be maintaining a strike movement at a time when high inflation is eroding salaries.At a local level, some announced “Robin Hood” operations unauthorised by the government. In the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne area, the local CGT trade union branch cut power to several speed cameras and disabled smart power meters.
“This reform is unfair and brutal,” said Luc Farre, the secretary general of the civil servants’ UNSA union.
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