News on Marseille

France Retirement Protests

2010-11-10T02:00:41Z

People shout slogans during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, against plans to raise the retirement age that are awaiting President Nicolas Sarkozy's signature. Banner reads "For our pensions". (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

France Retirement Strikes

2010-10-28T14:37:41Z

Aerial view of oil tankers and other vessels waiting off the coasts of Marseille, southern France, where oil terminals are blocked by striking workers, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Nationwide protests and strikes over raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 have disrupted French life and the country's economy for weeks, canceling trains, causing school closures and shutting down one gas station in four. (AP...

France Stranded Tankers

2010-10-28T14:03:38Z

FILE - This Oct. 26, 2010 file photo shows oil tankers and other vessels waiting off Marseille's port where oil terminals are blocked by striking workers, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Eighty ships are stranded off the port of Marseille and about 1,600 sailors are fending off boredom. They're waiting for the end of a month-long power struggle between labor unions and port authorities that has virtually shut down the port's oil terminals, Marseille's reeking mounds of trash in the center of Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Striking garbage collectors in Marseille faced 9,000 tons of garbage that have piled up in the streets in the last two weeks. The FO union voted Monday evening to end the protest out of concerns over "hygiene and safety." City authorities said it would take four to f...

France All in the Family

2010-10-20T14:32:25Z

In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, Union FO, or "Workers Force," activist Eric Gilly, at left holding a leaflet reading "The Strike," and his daughters Margot, center, and Stephanie, prepare to demonstrate in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

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