{"id":183033,"date":"2022-10-18T21:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183033"},"modified":"2022-10-18T21:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:36:40","slug":"striking-and-protesting-across-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/striking-and-protesting-across-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking and protesting across France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183034\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO-696x464.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/RTSCCSSO-630x420.webp 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thousands of people have taken to the streets across France and commuters faced delays as unions staged a nationwide strike for higher salaries, following weeks of walkouts that have hobbled oil refineries and sparked petrol shortages around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations\u00a0took place in dozens of cities across France on Tuesday, as transportation workers, and some high school teachers and public hospital employees went on strike.<\/p>\n<h2>Why are people protesting?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Protesters and strikers are demanding pay rises that keep up with the soaring cost of living, as France experiences inflation of 6.2 percent \u2013 its highest rate in decades.<\/li>\n<li>Inflation has risen around the world as economies rebounded from the COVID pandemic and then worsened as Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine sent food and fuel prices soaring.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday\u2019s protests come after the left-wing CGT union rejected a deal over a pay increase that oil giant TotalEnergies struck with two other unions on Friday and called for continued walkouts into a fourth week.<\/li>\n<li>The CFDT and CFE-CGC unions, which together represent a majority of the group\u2019s French workers, agreed to a 7 percent pay rise and a financial bonus. But the CGT is holding out for a 10 percent pay rise.<\/li>\n<li>Striking workers are demanding higher wages from the windfall profits of energy companies amid high oil and gas prices as Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine aggravates an energy crisis. \u201cHuge profits are being claimed off the back of our work, and we are just claiming our fair share of the wealth,\u201d Axel Persson, CGT rail union spokesperson, told Al Jazeera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have taken to the streets across France and commuters faced delays as unions staged a nationwide strike for higher salaries, following weeks of walkouts that have hobbled oil refineries and sparked petrol shortages around the country. Demonstrations\u00a0took place in dozens of cities across France on Tuesday, as transportation workers, and some high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183035,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183033\/revisions\/183035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}