Paris-Sana
The strike that paralyzes public transport in protest of the French President Emmanuel Macron's government plan to adopt a "comprehensive system" for retirement has become the longest continuous strike in transportation for 30 years in France with an absence of a solution to the crisis.
The French Press Agency stated that the strike reached the 29th day since its inception, thus being the longest in the history of the National Railways in France, bypassing the duration of the strike in France in 1995 against a project to reform the state employees ’pension system when the movement crippled for three weeks from November to December In a move he forced the government to retreat and eventually withdrew it.
The Secretary-General of the General Federation of Labor, Philippe Martinet, called on the French to mobilize and participate in demonstrations and strikes at a time when negotiations between Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and the unions are expected to resume next Tuesday.
In the oil sector, the General Confederation of Labor called for an increase in workers ’movement, starting from Tuesday, with the suspension of work in refineries, oil stations and warehouses for four days.
The trade unions in France began on the fifth of last December a comprehensive strike against the pension reform project, paralyzing the movement of trains throughout France and public transport in Paris.
This is the first time that various sectors in the protest movement have unified, as most unions reject these plans, nearly a year after the start of the demonstrations led by the yellow jacket movement against Macron's economic policies.
