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With song and solidarity, French unions rally en masse against pension reform

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French labour union members and workers on strike attend a demonstration in Paris as France faces its 13th day of consecutive strikes against French government's pensions reform plans, December 17, 2019. Jean-Michel Belot, Reuters

As nationwide strikes continue in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s signature pension reform, unions demonstrated en masse on Tuesday in a pre-Christmas push to get the government to withdraw its reform plan altogether.