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Added on the 09/07/2021 16:45:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
"If the government were to use the 49.3" article to push through its pension reform, "there would be no more rules for anyone," warns Olivier Mateu, secretary general of the Bouches-du-Rhône CGT departmental union, at a press conference in Martigues. IMAGES
Employees of the ready-to-wear clothing company Camaieu "occupy" the company's headquarters in Roubaix, northern France, at the end of a general meeting. 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 farmers are beginning to dismantle their campsite on the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, in Paris southern suburbs. Farmers' largest unions FNSEA and Young Farmers have called for the blockades to be lifted following the new measures announced by the government. 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