General view of the Gare du Nord train station in Paris where passengers wait for their evening trains...
General view of the Gare du Nord train station in Paris where passengers wait for their evening trains several hours before the start of a general transport strike October 11, 2010. French unions gear up for more protest strikes this week over planned pension reforms as the second of two key clauses of a bill to raise the retirement age was rushed through the Senate. Striking transport workers will disrupt train and air travel and protesters will clog streets in the fifth wave of protest action over French government's push to make people work longer for a full pension to help ease a chronic deficit in France's pay-as-you-go pension system. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS TRANSPORT)