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French rail workers threaten more strikes, dismiss 'insufficient' inflation wage increase

A train at Paris' Gare de Lyon train station, where travel was disrupted on 6 July by a one-day strike by workers demanding wage increases in the face of inflation. © Benoit Tessier/Reuters

Unions representing French rail workers warned of more strikes this summer after denouncing wage increases offered by the rail company SNCF, following a one-day strike on Wednesday that disrupted travel at the start of the summer holiday season.

The state-owned railway operator agreed to a 3.7 percent increase in salaries for those at the start of their careers and 2.2 percent for managers.

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