Around 280,000 people took to the streets across France on Tuesday to protest the government’s contentious pension reform, far fewer than the last demonstration on 1 May.
After five months of mobilisations against France’s controversial pension reforms, the country’s trade unions called for a 14th day of demonstrations, as attempts to repeal the law struggle to make much progress in the Assembly.
The General Secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour, Laurent Berger, said the day of protests “is obviously the last on the issue of pensions in this format.”
But he added that demonstrations must serve to “show the strength of the trade union movement to take up the challenges that lie ahead,” such as “purchasing power, wages, housing [and] working conditions.”