Youth organizations and trade unions organized marches and strikes against a proposed labor-law overhaul that they said weakened worker protections and job security. High-school blockades, transit strikes and demonstrations appeared across France. Crowd estimates ranged from 224,000 according to the Interior Ministry to 400,000โ500,000 according to some organizers. The action opened a sustained campaign that connected young people facing insecure work with organized labor.
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Unions and youth groups opposed a labor-law reform they saw as weakening worker protections.