Rail strikes begin in earnest to save France's public network
ROCK-SOLID strikes across the French railway network caused travel chaos today, with only one in four trains running in the Paris region.
Just one in eight high-speed TGV services was running and one in five regional trains.
Unions took their first full day of action as part of three months of rolling strikes against attacks on workers’ conditions and plans to introduce competition into the service.
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