Despite renewed strikes, France pushes on with pension plan Women workers danced in protest and striking Eiffel Tower employees shuttered France's most famed monumentPARIS -- Women workers danced in protest and striking Eiffel Tower employees shuttered France's most famed monument Friday — but the government pushed ahead anyway with a troubled bill redesigning the national retirement system. But it has unleashed 51 days of strikes , and new protests in Paris and other cities Friday , by unions who see it as an attack on hard-won worker rights, and on France's way of life. Macron's government struggled Friday to sell the plan to a skeptical public after the Cabinet approved two bills aimed at enshrining the changes. Currently French people who have worked a full career can retire with a full pension at 62. A group of women workers, dressed in blue work shirts and yellow gloves like the “Rosie the Riveter” figure immortalized in U.S. wartime posters, danced and sang to complain that the reform unfairly hurts women.

Source: ABC News January 24, 2020 08:54 UTC