{"id":24044,"date":"2019-12-05T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2019-12-06T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:29:00","slug":"france-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/france-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"<France unions>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French unions are saying \u201cnon\u201d to\u00a0Macron\u2019s plan to overhaul the pension system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s plan to overhaul the country\u2019s bloated pension system \u2014 created after World War II \u2014\u00a0has gotten a thumbs down\u00a0from unions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-12-05\/macron-faces-dreaded-test-of-french-presidents-as-unions-strike?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=191205&amp;utm_campaign=bop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>, and they\u2019ve now called an indefinite strike that could bring the country to a standstill\u00a0at a time Macron needs the economy to hold up. It could also mean\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0is facing the biggest strikes of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/05\/france-braces-for-biggest-strike-of-emmanuel-macron-presidency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reporting from The Guardian states<\/a> that many schools were closed and even some police unions warned of \u201csymbolic\u201d closures of certain police stations.\u00a0About half of the scheduled Eurostar trains between Paris and London were also cancelled. Tourists were turned away at the Eiffel Tower as 11 out of the 16 metro lines were shut in Paris, forcing commuters to scramble to hire bikes and scooters.<\/p>\n<p>The government, which has already pushed through changes to tax and labor laws, argues that unifying the pensions system\u00a0is crucial to keep the system financially viable as the French population ages, and says it\u2019s open to tweaking its pension reform but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com\/click\/18810547.10995\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMTktMTEtMTMvdGVhbS1tYWNyb24tcmVhZHktdG8tcmlkZS1vdXQtYW55dGhpbmctZnJlbmNoLXVuaW9ucy10aHJvdy1hdC1pdD91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0xOTEyMDUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWJvcA\/5a9436ead7aaa8a4018b5647B8fee858f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com\/click\/18810547.10995\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmxvb21iZXJnLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FydGljbGVzLzIwMTktMTEtMTMvdGVhbS1tYWNyb24tcmVhZHktdG8tcmlkZS1vdXQtYW55dGhpbmctZnJlbmNoLXVuaW9ucy10aHJvdy1hdC1pdD91dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fdGVybT0xOTEyMDUmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWJvcA\/5a9436ead7aaa8a4018b5647B8fee858f&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575645296250000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYD5Kw6tBdiLa9lmkYCp04CWF0vA\">won\u2019t abandon it, says Bloomberg Politics<\/a>. Unions, on the other hand, say introducing a \u201cuniversal\u201d system for all will mean millions of workers in both the public and private sectors must work beyond the legal retirement age of 62 or face a severe drop in the value of their pensions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Full story:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;LA GREVE&quot;: Macron faces dreaded test of French presidents as unions strike <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#France<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Macron?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Macron<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ksCZ8vMDWw\">https:\/\/t.co\/ksCZ8vMDWw<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bpolitics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bpolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geraldine Amiel (@GeraldineAmiel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldineAmiel\/status\/1202473697166135296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h1>A plan with a past<\/h1>\n<p>The last serious attempt to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/04\/europe\/france-pension-reform-strike-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touch the pension system was in 1995<\/a>, when then-Prime Minister Alain Juppe\u2019s proposal brought thousands of people into the streets and paralyzed France for about a month. The plan was dropped.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com\/click\/18810547.10995\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9XSG9yb2Jpbg\/5a9436ead7aaa8a4018b5647Bf89f9658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com\/click\/18810547.10995\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9XSG9yb2Jpbg\/5a9436ead7aaa8a4018b5647Bf89f9658&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575645296250000&amp;usg=AFQjCNECMV-wHG5p4ASkyYQtHjNyH9LZjQ\">William Horobin<\/a>\u00a0reports, this time might be different. Polls show a majority of the French consider the current system financially unsustainable and are in favor of Macron\u2019s plan to\u00a0simplify the complex\u00a0web of benefit regimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French unions are saying \u201cnon\u201d to\u00a0Macron\u2019s plan to overhaul the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,3030,2005,3029,3031],"class_list":["post-24044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-france-unions","tag-pension-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24096,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions\/24096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}