Unions co-ordinate over 130 demonstrations over public sector reform

France

On 21 January the public services federations and unions, CGT, FSU and Solidaires, organised over 130 demonstrations and meetings around the country involving an estimated 100,00 participants. The unions are concerned about government proposals for reform that will affect all three of the main sections of the public services – ministries, local government and health service – and that will mean cuts in jobs and continual refusal by the government to negotiate pay increases and a reform of the public sector pay system.
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