French Government Backs Down to Allow Paris Labor-Reform Protest
In France, seven labor unions have planned to conduct marches this Thursday and on Tuesday of next week in Paris. In the midst of these strikes, thousands of soccer fans are in France to watch the Euro 2016. Police had initially put a ban on these protests, because they believed that they posed a security threat. Just hours after the ban, the French Interior Ministry overturned the decision, and will be working with the unions to establish a revised itinerary. Leaders of these unions, who had already planned to fight the ban, called this ruling a “’victory for unions and for democracy”. Law enforcement measures will be heighted in anticipation of these protests. These protests are taking place as result of President Hollande's decision to go ahead with labor reforms that will increase workers' hours and make it easier to eliminate jobs.
See "French Government Backs Down to Allow Paris Labor-Reform Protest", Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg, June 22, 2016