Striking workers and their supporters demonstrated at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport as a general strike on March 23 brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of towns and cities across France.The airport
tweeted, “Demonstration in progress at Paris-
CDG: road access around terminal 1 is currently disrupted.”A general strike
was called for Thursday, March 23, in response to the government’s forcing through of unpopular pension and retirement reforms without a parliamentary vote.France’s Directorate General for Civil Aviation
said some flight disruption was expected at several airports on March 23, including Paris-Orly, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lyon. Credit:
CFDT 93 via Storyful