PM to meet unions after French protests turn bloody
France’s embattled prime minister faced a tough and potentially pivotal meeting today with unions demanding that he toss out a divisive new jobs law after protests turned bloody and left a Paris park littered with shattered glass and ashes.
It will be the first time Dominique de Villepin sits down with leading unions since he introduced the “first job contract” in January. The face-off over the law, which makes it easier for companies to hire – and fire – young workers, has thrown the conservative government into a crisis and fanned student blockades at dozens of universities.
