Protesters take to streets set up blockades as France’s public sector strikes

by Radyo La Verdad | October 11, 2017 (Wednesday) | 2037

Protesters in the French Western City of Nantes took to the streets on Tuesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s overhaul of employment laws.

It is the first time in a decade that all nine unions have united behind a protest call.

If turnout is low on Tuesday, Macron could feel emboldened as he presses ahead with revamping France’s generous unemployment insurance in a bid to spur those who lose their jobs to get back to work more quickly.

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