Help

BI’s Article search uses Boolean search capabilities. If you are not familiar with these principles, here are some quick tips.

To search specifically for more than one word, put the search term in quotation marks. For example, “workers compensation”. This will limit your search to that combination of words.

To search for a combination of terms, use quotations and the & symbol. For example, “hurricane” & “loss”.

Login Register Subscribe

France: Strike causes widespread disruption to rail services

Reprints

French police fired tear gas at striking rail workers as they staged a protest near the National Assembly in Paris, The Associated Press reported. Protesters set off flares on train tracks, hurled bottles and blocked vehicles.

The weeklong strike by rail workers has caused one of the worst disruptions to France's rail network in years. Guillaume Pepy, chief executive of rail company Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, estimates that the strike cost the firm €80 million ($108 million) to €100 million.

Read more