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‘Don’t touch my retirement!’ wins the day in France
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Protests against pension reform in Bordeaux, France, on March 28, 2023.
PHOTO: ANDREA MANTOVANI/NYTIMES
Catherine Porter
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PARIS – The thronging marches drawing more than 1 million protesters fizzled out more than two years ago. The black-clad youth stopped lighting piles of garbage on fire in “wild protests”. There have been some countrywide union strikes, but none have focused solely on the issue.
So it might have seemed that the fight in France over raising the retirement age slowly, to 64 from 62, was settled. But that was not the case.
