French Rail Workers Press on With Strike After Lawmakers Pass Reform

French Rail Workers Press on With Strike After Lawmakers Pass Reform
SNCF railway workers demonstrate, on April 9, 2018 in Paris, as part of their strike over plans to overhaul the national state-owned railway company SNCF. Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images
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Striking French rail workers disrupted train services for the seventh day this month on Wednesday, spurning government calls to end the industrial action over reforms at the state-owned SNCF railway company.

The rolling strikes, due to stretch on until the end of June, entered a new, more testing phase for unions a day after parliament’s lower house approved the railway reform bill they are fighting.