Protesting against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms, trade union activists briefly stormed a central Paris building where the U.S.-based investment firm BlackRock has an office, chanting slogans and lighting firecrackers.
The union action in the historical Centorial building near Paris’ Grand Boulevards area, targeted BlackRock because of its private pension fund activity, protester Françoise Onic, 51, told Reuters.
“The government wants to throw away pensions, it wants to force people to fund their own retirement with private pension funds, but what we know is that only the rich will be able to benefit from such a setup,” Onic, a school teacher, added.
The move comes on the 11th day of nationwide union-organized strikes and demonstrations against the government’s plan to increase the retirement age by two years to 64.
