Less than 26,000 people attended a Paris rally on Tuesday to protest Macron’s overhaul of the employment code, a stark decline from the hundreds of thousands of protestors who went on strike at the hight of French labor action. The poor attendance at Tuesday’s rally signifies a decline in public interest for workers rights in France, and the wide-reaching power that unions once had is starting to give way to corporate interest. The shifting power dynamic in the labor market will make it easier for President Macron to move forward with his reform of French labor laws, and may citizens say that these changes are imperative in restoring the health of the French economy.
See "With French down on strikes, Macron reforms get easier ride", Ingrid Melander, Reuters, October 12, 2017