No end in sight for rail strikes

Paris – A powerful French union is vowing to push ahead with strikes that have hobbled nationwide train services, even as signs of a compromise emerged in talks with President Emmanuel Macron’s government.

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe yesterday met unions to discuss a Bill reforming national rail carrier SNCF and its €50 billion mountain of debt. Laurent Brun of CGT union left the meetings, saying the strike was going ahead. – AP