retirement
French workers walk out as Macron government raises retirement age and cuts pensions
January 31, 2023PM insists pensions plan is “no longer negotiable” as unions prepare for mass demonstrations in the streets.
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White House ceremony highlights dollars for troubled multi-employer pensions
December 9, 2022A section of Biden’s American Rescue Act has become a lifesaver for more than 200 endangered multi-employer pension plans involving 3 million workers.
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Macron unites all French workers—against him and his pension “reforms”
December 10, 2019Following on the heels of his tax giveaway to the rich and his changes to labor law making it easier to fire workers, Macron's pension reform requires workers to work longer to earn the same pension...
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Workers shut down France over Macron pensions and retirement attacks
December 6, 2019“It doesn’t please us to strike. But we have to. We can’t work until we are 90 years old.”
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“A Man Called Ove”: Swedish film celebrates a hidden hero
November 23, 2016Ove is a burly Swede who spent 43 years around railyards, force retired now at 59, living by himself, and lording it over everyone in the private housing complex he used to manage. He’s offended by...
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