French workers angry over proposed changes to retirement rules are halting high-speed trains, disrupting electricity supplies and taking to the streets in a day of nationwide strikes and protests seen as a major test for President Emmanuel Macron.
Electricity workers pledged to reduce power supplies as a form of protest, and some 70% of preschool and primary school teachers said they would refuse to work Thursday, according to French media reports. High school student unions are expected to join the protests by blocking access to some schools.
“I agree with most of the strikers’ demands,” she said. “But I am paid barely the minimum wage. If I could I would have marched with the strikers, today but I can’t afford it.” She fears the proposed changes would lead “to work more to earn less.” Dussopt justified the choice to push back the retirement age because the government rejected other options involving raising taxes — which he said would hurt the economy and cost jobs — or reducing pension amounts.
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