After Months of Strikes, France’s Macron Looks to Break Rail Unions

After Months of Strikes, France’s Macron Looks to Break Rail Unions
French state-owned railway company SNCF workers attend a demonstration against the French government's reform plans in Paris as part of a national day of protest, France, April 19, 2018. Reuters/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo
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PARIS—In early April, thousands of French rail workers filled a square outside one of Paris’s largest stations at the start of a strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s reforms.

Letting off smoke flares and blowing whistles, they chanted slogans against the president’s plans to shake up the heavily subsidized and indebted state-run SNCF rail company.