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"2.5m" protest French pension reform

Some 2.5 million strikers turned out to march in rallies across France to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62, the CFDT trade union estimated Tuesday.

As is traditional in France, official turnout estimates were much lower than the organisers claimed, but interim figures from both police and unions were higher Tuesday than on a similar day of mobilisation in June. Then...

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  • anonnymouse

    Discussion 5 : 08/09/2010 at 12:03 PM5

    Trouble is, these are the conditions that the workers signed up too. ludicrous as they might appear now, it is what french governments have been offering public sector workers for decades. problem is who now pays?

  • Ozman_Bkk

    Discussion 4 : 08/09/2010 at 11:35 AM4

    The basic problem is that governments, in good times, lose focus and promise the world. Then the bad times come, as they always do, and those benefits are no longer affordable. It doesn't matter if it is the retirement age, medical benefits, unemployment benefits, they all have to be paid for. The fact is that governments, in the present climate, just don't have the money. Full stop.

  • Joe

    Discussion 3 : 08/09/2010 at 08:57 AM3

    Will France follow the lead that was established in Greece and bankrupt the country due to high pension costs? America is facing the same problem and the Unionized public employees and their handlers will not face this fact.

  • Grow up

    Discussion 2 : 08/09/2010 at 01:17 AM2

    and 60 times more than the PAD, even with the money paid to every protester.

  • Mungo Gubbins

    Discussion 1 : 07/09/2010 at 11:26 PM1

    Well that's 20 times more people than the Thaksin fan club ever managed to get onto the streets, even when they were being subsidized.

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