{"id":12445,"date":"2019-12-24T20:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12445"},"modified":"2019-12-24T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:33:42","slug":"french-stand-off-ruins-christmas-eve-for-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12445","title":{"rendered":"French Stand-off Ruins Christmas Eve For Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>France protests and transport strikes have put the Christmas celebrations on hault for a number of French travelers holding a ticket to reach their loved ones. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France will have its Christmas Eve this year ruined by the nearly three-week standoff between French train drivers and the government over the restructuring of pension reforms as stated the president. The stand-off has however spoiled Christmas plans for tens of thousands of ticket holders wishing to see their loved ones of the merry day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Workers at the national SNCF and Parisian RATP rail and public transport companies have downed tools to protest at the government&#8217;s plan to meld France&#8217;s 42 pension schemes into a single points-based one, which would see some public employees lose certain privileges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There will be no surprises under the Christmas tree for those keen to travel on Tuesday, with up to 40 percent of high-speed rail and express regional trains cancelled, along with up to 20 percent of other trains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talks between the government and unions last week failed to find middle ground, and strikers vowed there would be no holiday truce unless the pension overhaul plan was scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new poll shows public backing for the strike has dropped by three percentage points, though 51 percent of respondents still expressed support or sympathy for the strikers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However the French the government insists the new system would be fairer and more transparent. But the rigid protests will continue through this cherished holiday taking a heavy toll on businesses for hotels and restaurants during this busy time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France protests and transport strikes have put the Christmas celebrations on hault for a number of French travelers holding a ticket to reach their loved ones. &nbsp; France will have its Christmas Eve this year ruined by the nearly three-week standoff between French train drivers and the government over the restructuring of pension reforms as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12447,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions\/12447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}