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By Sarah White and Michaela Cabrera PARIS (Reuters) - Travelers grappled with another crippling wave of transport strikes in France on Sunday, as train workers protested President Emmanuel Macron ...
The French government and unions appeared still far apart after talks resumed Tuesday over fiercely contested pension reform proposals that have triggeredrecord-settingstrikes on the country's ...
Railway workers in France staged a strike on Thursday, 20 April, in a continuing dispute over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. The French president signed the deeply-unpopular bill raising the ...
Public transport was severely impacted by strikes. Only two Paris metro lines were running normal service. By late morning, there was large disruption to rail services across France, with SNCF saying that only one-in-three regional TER trains and one-in-two TGV or Ouigo services running. [131]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
On 26 July 2024, the day of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of arson attacks damaged the LGV Atlantique, Nord, and Est lines of the French high-speed railway system. [3] International and domestic rail services were widely disrupted, [4] with around 800,000 passengers affected. [5]
A national rail strike began at 7pm on Wednesday 11 February and is affecting mainly trains in the Ile-de-France – Paris and the region around it. The walk-out by the biggest rail union, the CGT ...
Train staff walk out from 8pm on Thursday. ‘Traffic will be severely disrupted’, says French Railways French rail strike to wreck half-term return for thousands of British families