It has been a failure. After the thirty-sixth day of protect actions against the government's pension reform plans, the longest industrial conflict for more than 30 years, the government has lost three important gambles. The hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated across the country on Thursday January 9th showed that in spectacular fashion. The level of support for the strike among workers at the rail company SNCF (66.6% for drivers, 57.6% for conductors), at the Paris regional transport body the RATP and in the education system remains as high as it was in December. The protest marches in the regions and in Paris were as big as they were before.
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