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Protests in France as unions make last-ditch bid to resist higher retirement age (apnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Ninmi@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Raising the retirement age to 64 seems logical considering the ever longer life expectancy and the demographic reality a lot of countries face, so the level of protests against this has me a bit puzzled. Though I've understood that it's mostly the way it was pushed through that has people riled up?

[–] henry@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

economically logical perhaps, but that's all. Nothing logical about more work in old age.

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