Striking workers disrupted garbage collection in Paris and blocked river traffic on part of the Rhine river.
In a 12th day of nationwide protests since strikes began in mid-January, demonstrators briefly blocked an access road to the Council with rubbish bins, hanging a banner across the street reading "Constitutional Censorship".
The industrial action has lost some steam and the protests have rallied thinner crowds in past weeks compared with the more-than 1 million-strong numbers seen earlier in the movement."This is certainly not the last day of the strike," Sophie Binet, the new leader of the hard-left CGT union, said at blockade of an incinerator outside Paris.
Macron said he would organise a meeting with unions after the Council's decision to start working on other proposals -- an initiative the CGT said would be short-lived if he was not ready to discuss withdrawing the pension reform. "The country must continue to move forward, work, and face the challenges that await us," Macron told a news conference late on Wednesday.Political observers have said the widespread discontent over the government's reform could have longer-term repercussions, including a possible boost for the
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