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On 31 January 2021, several thousand members of student associations and the LGBTQ community gathered in Paris to protest against poor educational and social conditions. [6] The main rally organized by the CGT took place on 4 February 2021 in Paris and other cities across France. Participants came from across all social classes and industries.
Strike action and unplanned maintenance had led to more than 60 per cent of France's refining capacity – or 740,000 barrels per day (bpd) — being offline which in turn forced the country to import more amid the increased energy costs due to the global supply uncertainty. [1]
2023 Cape Town taxi strike;; 2023 Irn-Bru strike; [29] [30]; 2023 Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital strike; [31] [32]; 2023 Sogo & Seibu strike - strike at the flagship Seibu Department Store in Tokyo in protest over the store's sale to the American Fortress Investment Group, representing the first strike at a major department store in Japan in over 60 years; [33]
Striking subway workers shut down half of the Paris Metro lines Thursday, a nationwide day of walkouts and protests by French train drivers, teachers and other public-sector workers demanding the ...
2024 New York Daily News strike, one day strike in protest of staffing cuts, the first strike by New York Daily News journalists since the 1990–1991 New York Daily News strike. [6] 2024 Northern Ireland public sector strike, involving 150 000 public sector workers, the largest strike in Northern Ireland in over 50 years. [7] [8]
For British travellers in France, the Foreign Office is warning: “Industrial action may start the evening before the strike day and run for several days.” The latest walk-out is due to end at ...
2014: 2014 Sarcelles riots, a pro-Palestinian protest against the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza degenerated into an antisemitic riot in Sarcelles, France. 2016: 2016 French taxi driver strike, a strike by taxi drivers in several major cities against Uber, included many road blockades, fires, overturned vehicles, and the blockade of roads ...
Farmers from France, the European Union's biggest agricultural producer, led European-wide protests at the start of 2024, but demonstrations fizzled out as the year went on.