Massive strike paralyses Paris public transports as unions protest sweeping pension reforms by French President Emmanuel Macron
Commuters stand on Denfert-Rochereau station's platform in Paris on September 13, 2019 during a one-day strike of Paris public transports operator RATP employees over the French government's plan to overhaul the country's retirement system.
"I am walking to work today and will be on the streets for at least four hours," Anthony, 21, who works in a restaurant in West Paris told Reuters.Unions want the strike, expected to be the largest since 2007 in Paris, to send a warning to Macron's government as it launches one of the most perilous reforms of his presidency – to merge France's 42 different pension systems into a single points-based system.
The government did not waver in the face of rolling strikes last year over a reform of the state rail company, but Macron has since been weakened politically by a series of anti-government protests at the end of 2018 and early this year.
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