French schools, airports and trains will face heavy disruption for the sixth time this year -- as unions galvanize people nationwide in protest against government plans to raise the retirement age for most workers.
Paris is expected to bear the brunt of the protests, with most lines on the metro running only at the busiest times, according to the city’s transport agency RATP. The main education trade union FSU said Sunday that 120 schools would close for the day and 60% of primary school teachers would be on strike in the French capital. France’s civil aviation authority, meanwhile, has asked airlines to reduce scheduled flights by 20% and 30% at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris respectively.
” Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the CGT, the biggest French union, said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche Sunday that unions “are moving up a gear” and he expected “that the mobilizations will continue and grow until the government listens to workers.” France has endured a series of strikes this year, as workers rail against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned pension reforms.
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