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PARIS—Up to 1 million unionists and students marched in 160 cities across France March 7 to oppose a new antilabor law. The law gives bosses a two-year period to fire workers under the age of 26 at any time for any reason. It also lowers the minimum age for apprentice jobs from 16 to 14. Above, some of the 200,000 people who rallied in Paris that day. Students conducted strikes or blocked access to 40 of France’s 82 universities. On March 11, riot police stormed the Sorbonne University to remove 300 students conducting a sit-in protesting the law.
—DIMITRIS FASFALIS
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