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The government will face this Thursday its first interprofessional social movement since the start of the school year. Demonstrations are planned everywhere in France, at the call of the CGT, the FSU, Solidaires and youth organizations, to demand wage increases. The unions also want to take the opportunity to impose a balance of power before the unveiling of the executive’s pension plan. To find out all about this strike, which will notably affect the transport sector, but also National Education, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilizing all day in a Live to follow here.
While the discontent will be heard today in the streets, the executive has chosen to release some ballast on its criticized pension reform. The government will indeed reopen a new round of consultations with social partners and political forces with a view to adopting a comprehensive bill “before the end of winter”, Elisabeth Borne announced on Thursday. There will therefore be no “forced passage” on this highly inflammable subject, as was feared even within the majority.
A “Gangsta” has just joined paradise. Rapper Coolio, one of the legends of American “west coast” hip-hop, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. His manager did not specify the cause of death, but he told the New York Times that the 59-year-old artist died suddenly while staying with friends. From his real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr. he had reached the top of the American charts with Gangsta’s Paradiseaccompanying the release of the film Rebel Minds, with Michelle Pfeiffer, also present in the clip. The title had even finished in first position of the Billboard top 100 of 1995 (in front of Waterfalls of TLC), a first for rap.