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Rolling strikes also continued on railways. Students and activists from the Permanent Revolution collective "briefly invaded" the Forum des Halles shopping mall, with banners calling for a general strike and chanting for Paris to "stand up" and "rise up", [24] and letting off red smoke canisters.
A union-led general strike on 13 May included 200,000 in a march. The strikes spread to all sectors of the French economy, including state-owned jobs, manufacturing and service industries, management, and administration. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike. [12]
[1] There have been weeks of strikes at oil refineries for higher salaries which led to calls for a nationwide and general strike. [4] [1] French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the United States, Norway and other "friendly" natural gas supplier states for the extremely high prices of their supplies, saying that Europeans are "paying four ...
A general strike had been initiated in Le Havre on 26 May, accompanied by factory occupations to prevent lock outs, and had quickly spread to all of France. More than a million workers were on strike. The social movement immediately followed the electoral victory of the Popular Front, in order to reach this position of force.
1995 strikes in France; 2009 French Caribbean general strikes; French Student and Workers Strike against Austerity 2009; 2010 French pension reform strikes; 2019–2020 French pension reform strike; 2024 French farmers' protests
That reveals that the UK lost 5,245,503 days to strike action in that time, less than a third of the French total. Data from the ONS differ slightly from the Ilostat figures, showing that ...
The railway workers were joined by Paris's metro personnel, postal workers, school teachers, and other public workers on 12 December snowballing the strikes out of control. The last strike on 12 December counted up to 1 million Parisian gathering causing an existential threat to French government leading to forced discussion.
The French Union Solidaires protesting in the Place du Martroi in Orléans. The 2010 pension reform strikes in France were a series of general strikes and demonstrations which occurred in France throughout September and October 2010.