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Added on the 09/03/2016 08:06:58 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Between 300 and 400 people, mostly nurses from Bordeaux University Hospital, demonstrate near the hospital the day after the French government announced an overhaul of the healthcare system, which aims to improve the care of patients and the working conditions of medical staff. IMAGES
Heads of France's labour unions meet with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Labour Minister Muriel Pénicaud to discover the full extent of reforms to the French labour code. IMAGES
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
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