2023-04-19 23:45:00
Emmanuel Macron in the Hérault, day of “railway anger” and takeoff of the Starship rocket… All the news of the day.
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Day of “Railway Anger”. The SNCF unions are organizing protest actions against the pension reform in several stations in France on Thursday. This day of mobilization is for the unions a “preparatory stage” before the May Day demonstrations. Various gatherings in front of the stations of several large cities have been announced. In Paris, the unions meet with activists on the forecourt of the Gare de l’Est at 11 a.m. Calls for mobilization have also been launched in several cities in France (Rennes, Caen, Rouen, etc.).
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Macron in Hérault on the theme of back to school. After a first trip to Alsace on Wednesday where he was welcomed to boos from the crowd, Emmanuel Macron goes to Hérault on Thursday. In Ganges, he will exchange with teachers, students and parents from the Louise-Michel college. According to several macronist sources, he could on this occasion make announcements on the remuneration of teachers.
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Sophie Binet alongside workers at the Gardanne plant.The new secretary general of the CGT will go Thursday to the thermal power station of Gardanne, a place considered a symbol of the social struggle, for a general assembly. She will go there to “support the workers in struggle with their CGT union for the maintenance of activity and employment”, indicates the Departmental Union CGT. But also “to demand the withdrawal of the pension reform”.
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Starship, first take-off of the largest rocket in the world. After a first failure on Monday at the last minute due to a technical problem, the takeoff of the Starship rocket will be retried on Thursday. The spacecraft developed by SpaceX is intended for trips to the Moon and Mars. The new firing window will open Thursday at 8:28 a.m. local time for just over an hour, the company said. The launch of this giant must take place from the Starbase space base, in the far south of Texas in the United States.
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