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French unions call for mass protests and strike after French retail group Casino announced to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. At the group's headquarters in Saint-Etienne, in east-central France, employees are demonstrating the potential dismantling of their store. IMAGES
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
Around a hundred employees gather outside Fret SNCF's head office in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, as a meeting is held to discuss the future of the company. The subsidiary of the state-owned rail group is threatened by an investigation by Brussels, which suspects it of having received illegal aid, which would automatically lead to its bankruptcy. IMAGES
In Nantes, employees of troubled French airline Hop!, a subsidiary of Air France, gather to protest against planned job cuts. The details of the plan should be known at an extraordinary Economic and Social Council meeting on Friday. IMAGES
Climate activists stage a demonstration warning of "polluted" profits outside Unilever's HQ in London on eve of the company's annual earnings announcement. IMAGES
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