PARIS - France’s hardline CGT union has threatened to cut off electricity supplies to lawmakers and billionaires before a nationwide strike on Thursday, in an increasingly acrimonious showdown over the government’s plan to raise the retirement age.a move opinion polls show is opposed by a vast majority of workers already facing a cost-of-living crisis.
“I suggest they also go see the nice properties, the nice castles of billionaires,” Mr Philippe Martinez, leader of the CGT, France’s second-largest trade union, told France 2 television on Wednesday. Seven out of 10 primary school teachers will walk off their job, as will many refinery workers, unions and transport operators said.
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