French workers cut power to world's largest food market in pension protest

FILE PHOTO: Vendors gather in the poultry pavilion in Rungis International wholesale food market as buyers prepare for the Christmas holiday season in Rungis, south of Paris, November 30, 2017. Picture taken November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

PARIS (Reuters) - French energy workers protesting against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform cut power on Tuesday to the world's largest wholesale fresh food market, Rungis near Paris, the hardleft CGT union's energy branch said.

A spokeswoman for Rungis International Market said emergency power kicked in when the outage began 0530 GMT and that there was no disruption to trade. The power cut lasted 90 minutes.