{"id":4249,"date":"2019-12-20T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2019-12-20T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:34:05","slug":"follow-up-analysis-post-france-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/2019\/12\/20\/follow-up-analysis-post-france-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow Up Analysis Post: France Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

*Follow up on previous France Strike Analysis Report*<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businesses all over France are reporting turnover rate losses of 30-60% compared to last year due to the continued strikes over pension reform. On the 15th day of striking, the toll on businesses and the transport industry is continuing as well as the strikers’ resilience against Macron\u2019s pension reform. A strike of this size, which had over 615,000 strikers on their third day, is crippling the transportation services across France and in Paris during one of the busiest travel times of the year. 2 out of 3 TGVs and 8 of 16 metro lines in France are down due to the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one poll, 57% of responders opposed the new plan, an increase of 8% since the strike began. The strikers do not plan to let up, continuing to strike through Christmas and for as long as it takes to have the pension reform withdrawn. While the strikers are showing no sign of giving in, neither is President Macron. He is \u201cwilling to improve\u201d, but unwilling to completely withdraw the pension plan. There is the greatest potential for improvement by Macron on the raised retirement age from 62 to 64 which is a part of Macron\u2019s new pension reform plan. Macron hoped that talks with the union leaders would allow for a break in the strikes during the busy travel season, but the strikers and unions have proven they can continue the strike through the holidays, against Macron\u2019s wishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While strikes are a recurring event for France, a large scale strike of this size and with such resilience against the pension reform will continue to hurt Macron\u2019s approval ratings. Cutting taxes and reforming France were issues Macron ran on. Macron\u2019s pension reform plan has been his way of following through with his promise, and the majority of France is unhappy with the pension plan. Now the people of France, especially those who will be affected by the new pension reform, have seen how Macron planned to reform part of the French system and economy. Seeing one of Macron\u2019s campaign promise in action may move former supporters of Macron to vote against him in the next election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*Follow up on previous France Strike Analysis Report* Businesses all over France are reporting turnover rate losses of 30-60% compared to last year due to the continued strikes over pension reform. On the 15th day of striking, the toll on businesses and the transport industry is continuing as well as the strikers’ resilience against Macron\u2019s pension reform. A strike of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[147,148],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-folow-up","tag-france-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/europeandrussiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}