Railway workers protest in EC building in Paris

Railway workers and trade unionists occupied the lobby of the European Commission in Paris, Report informs via local media.

Demonstrators entered the building on Tuesday and lit flares. They were wearing Solidaires railroad workers' union vests.

Besides, the strikers disrupted the meeting of the Transport Minister of France, Clement Beaune, not far from the central metropolitan street of the Champs Elysees.

Earlier in April, railway workers and trade unionists protesting pension reform occupied the building of the Euronext stock exchange in the Défense business district in northern Paris. The protest was organized at the call of the trade union General Confederation of Labor (CGT). It took place against the backdrop of a National Railroad Company (SNCF) strike against pension reform, which unions have dubbed "Railroad Wrath Day."