As per tradition, unions organise festivities on Labour Day while local associations and clubs decorate their home towns with wreaths of green foliage, commonly known in Luxembourg as the 'Meekranz' ('May Wreath').

The Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation (OGBL) will hold its Labour Day festivities at Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg City. The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (LCGB) has meanwhile decided to organise an event at the Esplanade in Remich.

OGBL president Nora Back and LCGB president Patrick Dury will both speak at 10.30am.

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France

In our neighbouring country, unions have once again called on people to protest President Macron's contested pension reform on Labour Day. Authorities expect more than 300 protest events across France with an estimated 500,000 to 650,000 participants.

In Paris alone, 100,000 people are believed to demonstrate the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.