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Call for strikes

Unions have called a strike for March 22 and workers at SNCF, a stronghold of the communist-backed CGT union, have warned of more possible strikes. PARIS (Reuters) - The French government will shake up the debt-ridden SNCF railway company, ending the special employment rights that its workers have enjoyed for decades in sweeping reforms to be thrashed out in the coming months, the prime minister said on Monday.
French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announces plans to overhaul the state-owned railway firm SNCF. The details of the railway reform will be released in March.