French Polynesia. Unions in Tahiti to strike over government pension reform

Unions in French Polynesia are today holding a general strike in a bid to stop the government’s pension reform.

A union umbrella group is planning to gather outside the territorial assembly to demand that the reform plan be abandoned.

Its leaders are due to meet the assembly president Marcel Tuihani, the French High Commissioner Rene Bidal and the president Edouard Fritch.

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