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Several thousand Airbus employees demonstrate on the company's premises, on the outskirts of Toulouse, against the job-cutting plan announced by the aircraft manufacturer, which threatens 5,000 jobs in France, including more than 3,500 in Toulouse in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. IMAGES
In Rodez, just outside the southern French town of Toulouse, Bosch employees and those of the Jinjiang SAM foundry stage a joint demonstration over planned job cuts. The German group announced Friday it will cut 750 jobs in its Rodez Bosch factory by 2025. The SAM foundry, which works "80% for Renault", is planning to cut 214 jobs its current workforce of 357 as part of a new takeover deal. Their employees are on strike since Tuesday. IMAGES
In Nantes, employees of troubled French airline Hop!, a subsidiary of Air France, gather to protest against planned job cuts. The details of the plan should be known at an extraordinary Economic and Social Council meeting on Friday. IMAGES
Sanofi employees gather in protest outside the Sanofi Pasteur site in Marcy-l'Etoile, in southwestern France, following the announcement last June of a redundancy plan that will result in up to 400 job cuts. IMAGES
Several thousand masked demonstrators defy social distancing orders and march from Paris's Place de la République to Nation, calling for better public service and higher wages. IMAGES
"This is unjustified, intolerable, incomprehensible and unbearable": Nokia employees in the French city of Lannion protest after the Finnish telecoms equipment manufacturer said it would cut 1,233 jobs in France at its Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary, including 402 jobs at its Brittany site, i.e. more than half of its workforce. IMAGES