Originally published at: Kenny Stancil: Either Trade Unions Win This, or It Will Be the Far Right, Labor Sees High Stakes in French Pension FightK – Progressive Dreamers
Published originally at Common Dreams on April 7, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license As French workers intensify their fight against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular plan to raise the nation’s retirement age from 62 to 64, the stakes couldn’t be higher. A poll released Wednesday shows that reactionary lawmaker Marine Le Pen—leader of the…