French train workers protest rail reform

By Washington Examiner

Published June 19, 2014 4:13pm ET

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French train workers protest rail reform — A demonstrator holds a flare during a demontration march of French national railway SNCF in Paris, Thursday, June 19, 2014. They are striking over plans to streamline and open the state-run network, considered among the world's best, to private competition. A week into a nationwide train strike that has tangled traffic and stranded tourists and has caused some of the worst disruption to the country's rail network in years.(AP Photo/Francois Mori) | Francois Mori

PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of train workers have marched in Paris in anger, as support for their 9-day-old strike over a railways reform appears to be shrinking.

The workers are trying to thwart a bill under debate in parliament that would pave the way for opening up railways to competition in coming years, as part of a Europe-wide liberalization.

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