Fri Mar 17, 2023, 07:02 AM

Protests erupt as French government forces through higher retirement age

Source: CNN

The French government has forced through controversial plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64, a move likely to inflame the country’s weeks-long protest movement.

French President Emmanuel Macron will trigger special constitutional powers to enact the proposed pension reform bill, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced Thursday in the National Assembly, which had not yet voted on the proposal.

“We cannot bet on the future of our pensions,” Borne said amid jeers and chants from lawmakers. “This reform is necessary.”

Labor leaders in France called for new demonstrations following Borne’s announcement, with several thousand people converging at Paris’ Place de la Concorde and in several other cities in France on Thursday evening.

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Protests erupt as French government forces through higher retirement age (Original post)	brooklynite	Mar 17	OP
We should be doing the same.	Meadowoak	Mar 17	#1
Why?	ancianita	Mar 17	#2
Protesting against cuts, raising age requirements.	Meadowoak	Mar 17	#4
We already did. From 65 to 67 years old.	Delmette2.0	Mar 17	#3
We should have protested then, now they want to raise it to 70, then what? 80?	Meadowoak	Mar 17	#5
Yes, you are right.	Delmette2.0	Mar 17	#6
Just because the lumps sitting on their ass in congress can do that until they are 70 or 80	SouthernDem4ever	Mar 17	#8
I know I couldn't, my body was beat down to the point I coulo	Meadowoak	Mar 17	#9
I waited for the higher benefit at age 67 to retire.	CTyankee	Tuesday	#11
+1 n/t	Hiawatha Pete	Mar 17	#7
Macron's govt could be toppled this week, 2 no confidence votes coming up, oou la la	Shanti Shanti Shanti	Sunday	#10
Nope...	brooklynite	Tuesday	#13
Yeah, just saw that, that will bring out more protests, for sure!	Shanti Shanti Shanti	Tuesday	#14
Be careful what you ask for	ripcord	Tuesday	#12

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 07:11 AM

Meadowoak (4,303 posts)

1. We should be doing the same.

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Response to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 07:52 AM

ancianita (30,848 posts)

2. Why?

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Response to ancianita (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:20 AM

Meadowoak (4,303 posts)

4. Protesting against cuts, raising age requirements.

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Response to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:10 AM

Delmette2.0 (3,670 posts)

3. We already did. From 65 to 67 years old.

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Response to Delmette2.0 (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:22 AM

Meadowoak (4,303 posts)

5. We should have protested then, now they want to raise it to 70, then what? 80?

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Response to Meadowoak (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 08:27 AM

Delmette2.0 (3,670 posts)

6. Yes, you are right.

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Response to Meadowoak (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 01:51 PM

SouthernDem4ever (2,497 posts)

8. Just because the lumps sitting on their ass in congress can do that until they are 70 or 80

doesn't mean people that actually physically do work can.

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Response to SouthernDem4ever (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 01:57 PM

Meadowoak (4,303 posts)

9. I know I couldn't, my body was beat down to the point I coulo

Work anymore before 62.

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Response to Delmette2.0 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 10:14 AM

CTyankee (61,605 posts)

11. I waited for the higher benefit at age 67 to retire.

The problem is age discrimination or was in my case. New boss getting rid of all the older workers so she could get younger workers at a lower wage. She was fired for that.

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Response to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 10:52 AM

Hiawatha Pete (1,668 posts)

7. +1 n/t

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Mar 19, 2023, 11:08 AM

Shanti Shanti Shanti (11,572 posts)

10. Macron's govt could be toppled this week, 2 no confidence votes coming up, oou la la

Germany raised their retirement age to 67 with changing demographics, less workers, more retirements will do that

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Response to Shanti Shanti Shanti (Reply #10)

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 11:20 AM

brooklynite (85,587 posts)

13. Nope...

Neither vote succeeded.

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Response to brooklynite (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 11:36 AM

Shanti Shanti Shanti (11,572 posts)

14. Yeah, just saw that, that will bring out more protests, for sure!

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 21, 2023, 10:56 AM

ripcord (3,794 posts)

12. Be careful what you ask for

I retired too early and it was driving me crazy. I went back to work for my boss after retirement and when that was done a friend asked me if I knew a professional driver who wanted to get into cannabis transportation. Now I am a 61 year old cannabis salesman in California and am really enjoying it, I like the people I work with and get to meet new people all the time.

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