Workers strike across France, hundreds of thousands expected to protest
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- Demonstrators are demanding an increase in the minimum wage and higher salaries for all workers, among other reforms.
- Workers across France have gone on strike following calls by trade unions, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to take to the streets.
- Protesters gathered in the southern cities of Marseille and Lyon, as well as in the western city of Nantes, on Thursday morning.
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- Workers across France have gone on strike following calls by trade unions, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to take to the streets.
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- Demonstrators are demanding an increase in the minimum wage and higher salaries for all workers, among other reforms.
- Protesters gathered in the southern cities of Marseille and Lyon, as well as in the western city of Nantes, on Thursday morning.