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CLEAN : Pivot age of 64 the red line France's biggest union (CFDT) will not cross in pension reform row

9th - Higher Ed
The project that has been announced by the government has a huge red line it is the pivot age: Laurent Berger head of the CFDT France's biggest and most moderate union calls all those who want a fair and equitable reform to go into the...
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CLEAN : Truckers demanding better working conditions block roads near Arles

9th - Higher Ed
Road transport and logistics employees block access to the Leuze industrial area in Saint-Martin-de-Crau near Arles (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Transporters begin road blockades over pay conditions in France

9th - Higher Ed
Four trade unions in the transport and logistics sector call on employees to strike and demand better working and salary conditions (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Tourists empathise as strike forces closure of Eiffel Tower

9th - Higher Ed
At the Eiffel Tower closed exceptionally due to a nationwide strike over pension reforms tourists are disappointed but many empathise with the trade unions decision to strike (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France strikes: Nantes protesters say they are fed up

9th - Higher Ed
Several thousand demonstrators gather in Nantes part of nationwide protest against President Emmanuel Macron's planned pension reform which unions say will force millions of people to work longer or face curtailed benefits (Footage by...
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CLEAN : CGT union chief reacts after meeting with French PM over pension strike impasse

9th - Higher Ed
After meeting with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe CGT union boss Philppe Martinez tells media we did not agree (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French unions protest against pension reform in Marseille call for gender equality

9th - Higher Ed
French unions have taken to the streets again to protest against the government's pension reform and call for gender equality (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France's SNCF cancels 90% of TGV trains for Thursday strike

9th - Higher Ed
French rail operator SNCF says that 90 percent of high speed TGV trains across the country will not run on Thursday when unions kick off an indefinite strike against a planned pension overhaul (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Firefighters camp out in Paris to denounce working conditions

9th - Higher Ed
Dozens of firefighters are camping out in Paris Place de la Republique from Monday evening until the end of the week (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Union leader says he does not want the government's planned pension reform project

9th - Higher Ed
Ahead of a a demonstration in Paris against unemployment and job insecurity the Secretary General of the CGT Union said he hopes the government will abandon its current plans for pension reform (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Bloomberg

French Union Urges Dec. 17 Strike Over Pension Reform

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Dec.12 -- Nicolas Veron, senior fellow at Bruegel & Peterson Institute for International Economics, discusses the call from French unions to strike again against the pension reform plan and the damage they have done to the French...
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CLEAN : We won't give up: anti pension reform demonstrators are determined in Marseille

9th - Higher Ed
We won't give up : one protester signals the intentions of the thousands of demonstrators in Marseille marching against the government's pension reform (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Union leader tells French government to stop being stubborn over pension reform

9th - Higher Ed
Speaking ahead of a march through the streets of Paris against pension reform union leaders expressed their frustration with the French government (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Protesters again take to the streets of the French capital against pension reform

9th - Higher Ed
Protesters begin marching from Montparnasse in Paris as pension reform opponents keep up the pressure on the French government (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Dozens flock to Queens hospital to get tested, as COVID-19 crisis deepens in NYC

9th - Higher Ed
We didn't have this many calls in 9/11 says a union representative for Emergency Medical Services outside a hospital at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Queens (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Sky News

British Airways staff threaten strike action over a new 'hire and fire' pay deal

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VOICED: British Airways has been warned that thousands of workers could take strike action, as part of negotiations over a new pay deal. In April the airline announced that 12,000 jobs could be lost after planes were grounded due to the...
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CLEAN : Union reps wants Airbus talks to "lower figure" of massive job cuts plan

9th - Higher Ed
Jean-François Keppner, the central union delegate for Force Ouvriere at Airbus, which has announced 15,000 job cuts worldwide, wants the company to "discuss the figure in order to bring it down (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Air France employees protest cancellation of Orly-Bordeaux flights

9th - Higher Ed
"The planes are full, they're working lines, so why take them away from us?": in Bordeaux, about 100 employees from Air France and its subsidiary Hop! protest the suppression of the air shuttle between Bordeaux-Mérignac and Orly (560,000...
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CLEAN : French economy secretary visits a Smart factory that Daimler seeks to sell

9th - Higher Ed
French Secretary of State for Economy and Finance Agnès Pannier-Runacher arrives at a Smart factory in Hambach, France where she is meant to meet with union representatives (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : France: cost cutting plan is an "earthquake" for employees at Renault factory in Maubeuge

9th - Higher Ed
If you take Maubeuge Construction Automobile out of the Sambre basin, what's left? Nothing, nothing, nothing!" Thousands of people are demonstrating in front of the MCA plant, a subsidiary of Renault, against the carmaker's savings plan...
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CLEAN : Renault employees go on strike over closure of Choisy-le-Roi factory

9th - Higher Ed
Renault employees go on strike over the planned closure of the Choisy-le-Roi factory in the southeastern suburbs of Paris (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Head of French farmers' unions meets French PM to discuss pension reform

9th - Higher Ed
The President of the National Federation of Farmers Unions (FNSEA) Christiane Lambert reacts after meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex to discuss pension reform (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Amazon France employees in Paris region return to wor

9th - Higher Ed
At Amazon's Brétigny-sur-Orge site in the Essonne region of France, employees return to work on a voluntary basis (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French nurse slams government 'mistreatment' of health professionals

9th - Higher Ed
Today we have fewer beds and fewer carers than for the first wave": Thierry Amouroux, spokesman for the National Union of Nursing Professionals (SNPI), warns of a lack of means in resuscitation services as France faces a an increase of...