High school students call Thursday as day of action against CPE

The high school representatives body FIDL is calling this Thursday, March 23rd as a nationwide day of action against Villepin's labour casualisation reforms.

Last Thursday, the 16th of March, high school students joined university students and young workers as up to 600,000 protested across France. Dozens of schools were occupied or blocked and tens of thousands of high school pupils went on strike.

FIDL intend to announce more information after their national coordination meeting in Dijon on Monday.

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