France currently has 42 different pension plans across its private and public sectors, with differences in retirement age and benefits. Mr Macron states his plans for a universal points-based system would be just, but alot of citizens disagree. The strike over his pension plan has gathered people from a wide range of professions, including firefighters, doctors and transport workers. Some have promised not to stop until he quits his campaign promise to change the retirement system."We're going to protest for a week at least, and at the end of that week it's the government that's going to back down," 50-year-old Paris transport employee Patrick Dos Santos told Reuters news. 800,000 people protested on Thursday, with many schools,hospitals, and school transport closed down.The change would remove the most opportunistic pensions for a number of jobs and unions dread the new system will mean some will have to work longer for a lower pension. Macron's unified system would benefit employees for each day  they worked, awarding points that would later be transferred into future pension benefits. This is important because it provides how protest can be used to oppose change by the government. As we learned in class, it is important to note that as a social practice, protest can be used to go against the government and its laws. The spur of social change is done by protest and is prevalent in democracies in order to increase living conditions for citizens.

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