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French unions call for mass protests and strike after French retail group Casino announced to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. At the group's headquarters in Saint-Etienne, in east-central France, employees are demonstrating the potential dismantling of their store. IMAGES
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
Crosses on the gates of Nestle's Buitoni factory in Caudry, northeastern France, pallets of wood on fire: employees of the site, threatened with closure, gather outside their factory at the time of a union-management meeting. Nestle announced on Thursday the definitive closure of the factory which has been implicated in a contaminated pizza health scandal, citing a drop in sales. 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
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
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