Protestors Take to Streets in France, Demand Government Protection for Jobs and Pay

Large crowds of protestors have taken to the streets across France, demanding the government step up their efforts to protect jobs and wages.

The protests had been organized by eight of France’s major unions and included employees in banks, schools, hospitals, transportation and post offices. As a result of the protests several students stayed home while rail and air services were disrupted.

Estimates have suggested that 23 percent of the country’s public sector employees joined the demonstrations, and the total number of participants neared one million. There has been growing frustration with the government and their handling of the economic crisis that has gripped France.

Protestors have been pointing to the government’s decision to provide multi-billion euro bailouts for banks while providing little help to smaller industries that have suffered in the economic slowdown.

The demonstrations were being supported by opposition Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry who noted, “to express what worries them: the fact that they work and yet cannot make ends meet, retired people who just can't make it [financially], the fear of redundancies, and a president of the Republic and a government that just don't want to change policy.”

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