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French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday he would not back down on plans to overhaul the state-run SNCF railways, as the pro-reform CFDT...
French police fire teargas at labour reform protesters
Riot police fired teargas and water cannon at protesters marching on Thursday in France against labour reforms in what unions say will likely be the...
French unions rally last-gasp protest as labour reform takes final steps (Updated)
France’s government invoked special constitutional powers on Tuesday to impose labour legislation that will make it easier to hire and fire staff, overriding street protesters...
Unions reject French government amendments to labour law reform
French government efforts to end a sometimes violent showdown with trade unions over plans to loosen labour laws were dealt a blow on Thursday when...
French unions lead labour law protest before meeting PM
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris under heavy police presence on Tuesday to demonstrate their discontent over changes to labour law that...
French protest union defies demo ban threat, says not to blame for violence
The head of a French union blamed for months of violence-marred demonstrations said on Thursday it would stage more street marches against labour law reform...
France threatens ban on union protests after ‘unbearable violence’ (Updated)
French leaders told the hardline CGT labour union on Wednesday it would be denied permission for further street rallies unless it rooted out troublemakers, a...
Violence erupts as thousands rally against labour law in Paris (Updated)
Gangs of masked youths smashed windows and hurled stones at riot police as thousands of people marched through Paris on Tuesday in protest at a...
Rubbish piles up in Paris as pre-Euro football protests go on
Rubbish piled up on streets in parts of Paris and other French cities on Wednesday as strikes and pickets by waste treatment workers took a...
Air France shirt-ripper trial postponed
Members of a union spearheading protests in France rallied at a courthouse on Friday in support of five people who risk prison over an incident...