| Author (Person) | Hall, Ben |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 12.10.10 |
| Publication Date | 12/10/2010 |
| Content Type | News |
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France was braced for an escalation of protests against Nicolas Sarkozy’s flagship pension reforms as metalworkers, dockers and refinery employees threatened to join an open-ended strike in October 2010. Union leaders held another day of mass demonstrations and strikes against the French president’s pension overhaul on the 12 October 2010, the fourth such protest since the beginning of September 2010. But the often ritualised protests took a more ominous turn for the government on the 11 October 2010 as calls for unlimited strike action spread beyond train and metro drivers. Student unions called for a mass boycott of universities, adding a flavour of 1968 radicalism, and refinery disruption created the risk of panic buying of fuel. However, on the 12 October 2010 the French government vowed to press ahead with the landmark pension reforms despite street demonstrations involving up to 3.5m people, the biggest in decades, and the spread of open-ended strikes. |
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| Countries / Regions | France |
