French refinery workers, teachers, train drivers, and other critical industry employees walked off their jobs in a nationwide day of strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to increase the retirement age by two years to 64. AP News reported the strikes are “halting high-speed trains, disrupting electricity supplies,” and bringing major transportation networks to a screeching halt.

Protests are underway in major French metro areas, including Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, and Nice. Transportation networks have ground to a halt. Many workers who hit the street in protest of Macron’s planned increase to the minimum retirement are in sectors including railways, schools, hospitals, and air-traffic controllers.

France’s eight largest labor unions coordinated today’s massive labor action. The CGT union and the head of the Communist party are expected to have at least a million workers protest today.

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