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Commuters clog a platform at Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris as a strike continues against French government pension reform plans, 9 December 2019.
FRANCE

French strikes continue at start of crucial week for pension reform
The 5 December national strike bears comparison with the November 1995 shutdown.
FRANCE - STRIKES

French strikes: heading for a repeat of 1995 nationwide shutdown?
A man walks by a closed RER gate during a strike of Paris public transports operator RATP employees over French government's plan to overhaul the country's retirement system, in Paris, on December 5, 2019 as part of a national strike.
FRANCE

France strikes to continue as government vows not to give in
Whirlpool employees (here in 2017) are due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron again on 22 November, 2019 to ask what happened to their jobs.
France - Emmanuel Macron

Macron returns to hometown in bid to win back public opinion
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (C), flanked by French Junior Minister for Transports Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (L) and CEO of France's state-owned railway company SNCF Guillaume Pepy (R) speaks at Gare de l'Est Paris' station, October 19, 2019
France-Transport

Full rail service to resume in France Monday after strike
A passenger waits at Nice railway station during a nationwide strike by French SNCF railway workers, France, October 18, 2019.
France-Travel

French PM accuses striking rail workers of disregard for ordinary people
Passengers struggling to get onto crammed Paris metro, 2007.
Transport

Paris prepares for 'Black Friday' with massive transport strike
Jean-Paul Delevoye, a special adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron, presents a special report to Prime minister Edouard Philippe to reform the country's pension system, 18 July 2019.
France - pension

French citizens to work for longer under new pension reform
Proposed reforms would be applied in hospitals
Trade Unions

Unions resist Macron's proposed public sector reform
Member of CGT on Paris demo 5 February 2019.

Red and Yellow Vests in joint strike, but can they become joint force?
A worker of French state-owned railway company SNCF attends a demonstration against the French government's reform plans in Nantes on 19 April 2018.
Industrial unrest

Rail unions threaten 'day without trains' as strike continues
AIR FRANCE / KLM
Aviation

Dutch politicians, unions growing anxious over Air France dispute
GT Union general secretary Philippe Martinez (L) and his delegation arrives to take part in a meeting with French Prime minister as part of the negotiations on planned overhaul of SNCF, on May 7, 2018 at the Matignon hotel in Paris.
industrial unrest

French rail strike to continue indefinitely
Jean-Marc Janaillac, CEO of Air France-KLM Group, leaves a news conference in Paris Jean-Marc Janaillac, Chief Executive Officer of Air France-KLM Group, leaves a news conference in Paris, France, May 4, 2018.
Aviation

Air France shares dive as minister warns company could 'disappear'
A demonstrator confronts police on the Paris May Day demonstration
FRANCE

100+ detained after Paris May Day demo violence
A masked protester walks near a car that burns outside a Renault automobile garage during clashes during the May Day labour union march in Paris, France, May 1, 2018.
Society

No 'convergence of struggles' on 1st of May marred by violence
Commuters walk on a platform after they arrived at the Saint-Lazare train station in Paris during the tenth day of a nationwide strike by French SNCF railway workers in France, April 24, 2018.
Society

Support for French rail strike falls further
French state-owned railway company SNCF employees and CGT labour union members demonstrate in Lyon as part of a nationwide strike in France, April 9, 2018
Society

France faces fresh railway strikes, demonstrations
Sud Rail labour union employees of French state-owned railway company SNCF attend a demonstration in Paris as part of a nationwide strike, France, April 3, 2018.
Labour

French rail unions warn of second day of travel disruption
A railworker at Paris's Gare Saint-Lazare
FRANCE

French unions meet to plan rail strike

French press review 17 November 2017
CGT leader Philippe Martinez on Thursday's demonstration in Paris
FRANCE

French unions stage fourth day of protest against Macron

French press review 16 November 2017
Philippe Martinez of the CGT (L) and FO'sJean-Claude Mailly (R) at a press conference last year
FRANCE

French unions plan more protests on eve of public-sector strike
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