US EditionFrench Unions Call December Strike over 'Horror Show' Budget Plans
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Trade unions announce resistance to austerity plans and thus mean demonstrations and other actions. Thus, they will not succeed.
CGT Secretary General Sophie Binet called this Wednesday for a day of strike and demonstration on December 2nd. She intends to put "pressure" on the budget debate.
MPs must decide from 3 p.m. on the measure promised by Sébastien Lecornu's government to try to remove a censorship from the PS.
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The LocalFrench unions call December strike over 'horror show' budget plans
French unions have issued a strike call for December in protest at the 2026 Budget, which is currently being debated in parliament and which one union leader described as a "horror show".
The National Assembly enters, this Wednesday, November 12, into its last day of debates on the Social Security Funding Project (PLFSS). At midnight, the lower house will constitutionally have to leave its hand to the Senate to debate the budget copy.
Franceinfo, in collaboration with "L'Oeil du 20 o'clock", has identified more than 20 outside actors who are responsible for at least 300 amendments, a legal practice, but which sometimes lacks transparency.
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