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Added on the 06/05/2019 10:15:00 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French ministers Barbara Pompili and Bruno Le Maire meet trade unions and employers' organisations for a working meeting on the post-coronavirus recovery plan. IMAGES
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
French union representatives meet with the Minister of Labour Olivier Dussopt for a first consultation session on pension reform. IMAGES
Several thousand people demonstrate in the western French city of Rennes to demand answers, an increase in wages, just over six months before the presidential election. IMAGES