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France faces more protests over pension reform
Nov 9, 2010, 10:03 GMT
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces further protests against his pension reform as unions announced more strike action, according to local media on Tuesday.
Unions decided late Monday to hold another day of strikes on November 23.
But fewer people have taken part in recent protests and many French people believe further strike action to be useless.
The lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, has already passed the pension reform bill, which is due to come into effect in mid-November.
The reform gradually raises the retirement age for a minimum pension from 60 to 62, and from 65 to 67 for a full pension, by the year 2018.
When the protests were at their height in October, several million people took part in strikes and demonstrations, all of the country's 12 oil depots were blockaded and transport networks were severely disrupted.
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