{"id":3323,"date":"2018-04-03T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b8ea75326aa30291ff561b0d2b9e11fe"},"modified":"2018-04-03T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:20:07","slug":"french-strikes-cause-railway-chaos-and-challenge-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/french-strikes-cause-railway-chaos-and-challenge-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"French strikes cause railway chaos \u2013 and challenge Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8212; A major French railway strike has brought the country&#8217;s famed high-speed trains to a halt, leaving passengers stranded and posing the biggest test so far for President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s economic strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The SNCF national rail authority says about 12 per cent of trains are running Tuesday, in the first of a series of strikes set to last three months.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers are packing platforms or hitching rides on traffic-clogged roads and sharing travel tips online.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is also disrupted on Eurostar lines to Britain and trains to Germany, though most trains are running as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Rail workers are protesting government plans to eliminate worker protections. It&#8217;s part of Macron&#8217;s broader plans to make France more globally competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Strikes and protest actions Tuesday are also hitting Air France flights, garbage collection and universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &mdash; A major French railway strike has brought the country&rsquo;s famed high-speed trains to a halt, leaving passengers stranded and posing the biggest test so far for President Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s economic strategy. The SNCF national rail authority says about 12 per cent of trains are running Tuesday, in the first of a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}