FRANCE: PUBLIC-SECTOR STRIKE SHOW SIGN OF ENDING AS SOME TRANSPORT WORKERS RETURN TO WORK.

Record ID: 342159

  • Title: FRANCE: PUBLIC-SECTOR STRIKE SHOW SIGN OF ENDING AS SOME TRANSPORT WORKERS RETURN TO WORK.
  • Date: 15th December 1995
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (DECEMBER 15, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV ENTRANCE TO CHATEAU ROUGE METRO STATION/ PASSENGER GOING DOWN STAIRS TO STATION (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. GV/SV METRO TRAIN COMING INTO STATION, PEOPLE GETTING ON, TRAIN LEAVES (3 SHOTS) 0.40 3. TRACK TRAFFIC JAM / CYCLIST SAYING THE TRAFFIC'S MOVING BETTER THIS MORNING BUT THE EXHAUST FUMES ARE TERRIBLE (FRENCH) 0.55 4. TRACK MAN WALKING DOWN ROAD 1.00 5. SLV BUS WITH SIGN "GARE SAINT LAZARE" LEAVES GARE DU NORD 1.09 6. GV/SV INT. GARE DU NORD WITH PRACTICALLY EMPTY STATION CONCOURSE/ TICKET OFFICE (3 SHOTS) 1.24 7. SLV/GV ELECTRONIC SIGN IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH SAYING "DUE TO STRIKE NO SUBURBAN OR INTERNATIONAL TRAINS" (2 SHOTS) 1.33 8. SLV EUROSTAR TGV AND SUBURBAN TRAIN STANDING SIDE BY SIDE AT PLATFORM 1.41 9. GV/SV METRO TRAIN ARRIVES, PEOPLE GET ON, METRO TRAIN LEAVES (4 SHOTS) 2.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 30th December 1995 12:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA7YNO5VJXE9STEBG9DFBE6YHWY
  • Story Text: There were signs of a beginning of an end to three weeks of crippling public sector strikes in France on Friday (December 15) when some transport workers returned to work and some trains and buses resumed services.

    In Paris, six of the 15 metro underground lines were running a train every quarter-hour instead of one every two minutes as usual.

    About six per cent of buses were running in the capital, about the same level of service as on Thursday.

    In the northern city of Lille, a high-speed TGV passenger train left the station at 6 a.m. with 10 passengers, headed south for Roissy, a Paris suburb that is home to Charles de Gaulle International Airport.

    The train arrived a half-hour late after striking railway workers blocked the tracks until police could clear the way.

    Other regional services, as well as trains to Belgium, were scheduled to resume later in the day.


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