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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/france-ski-strike-french-workers-walk-out-half-term-macron-pension-reform-2023-ts2d5gtcl
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Ski lift operators have announced strikes in French mountain resorts next month over pension reforms, threatening to spoil the stays of holidaymakers.
The two main unions covering lift and tow operators and seasonal workers filed “unlimited” strike notices starting next Tuesday, the date of the next mass stoppages and protests against President Macron’s project to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
“We have decided to call for a strike during the February holidays because demands are listened to more during this period,” Eric Becker, head of the lift operators’ branch of the Force Ouvrière union, said. The other main union, Confédération Générale du Travail also filed an open-ended notice of intention to strike, calling for “especially strong action” during the Ski World Cup at Courchevel and Méribel in mid-March.
February is peak season in the resorts, when French schools are on holiday and many have organised ski trips to the Alps or Pyrenees. The resorts are also popular with Britons and other nationalities on half-term breaks.
The unions say they do not expect to paralyse all lifts, tows and cable cars but to stage rolling partial stoppages across the resorts. Pascal de Thiersant, director of the Trois Vallées ski park in Savoie, the largest connected ski area in the world, criticised the action. “After almost two years of Covid then the energy problem, the unions want to pile it on again. That’s really shooting themselves in the foot,” he said.
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If the motorway toll operators go on strike it could help make the Feb driving trips a bit cheaper 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Has anyone seen a list of affected resorts or even proposed dates yet?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| vea22222 wrote: |
| Has anyone seen a list of affected resorts or even proposed dates yet? |
The initial strike date is 31st January - by calling it an unlimited strike they do not have to announce further dates but can just keep the strike rolling over day by day
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during the Ski World Cup at Courchevel and Méribel in mid-March.
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Surely mid February.....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| jonathancarty wrote: |
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during the Ski World Cup at Courchevel and Méribel in mid-March.
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Surely mid February..... |
Ssssh, don't tell the unions! 
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