FILE PHOTO: People attend the traditional May Day labour march, a day of mobilisation against the French pension reform law and for social justice, in Paris, France May 1, 2023.  REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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French unions plan new protest over pension law on June 6

French trade unions called for a new day of nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform.

PARIS (Reuters) -French trade unions on Tuesday called for a new day of nationwide protests on June 6 against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform.

Macron last month raised the retirement age by two years to 64 despite multi-sector strikes, in a move that drove his popularity down to near the record lows seen during the "Yellow Vests" crisis of 2018-2019.

The National Assembly is due to discuss on June 8 a draft bill tabled by deputies from the opposition Liot party to cancel that new legislation, which raises the retirement age by two years.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, Jean-Stephane Brosse, Ingrid Melander, Elizabeth Pineau;Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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