French rail unions threaten strike action over any reform by decree

French unions met on Tuesday to coordinate their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform the French national SNCF railway, but stopped short of an immediate strike call.Instead, rail workers' representatives warned the government of industrial action if it goes ahead with plans to introduce the reforms by decree, bypassing parliamentary debate.SNCF unions were instrumental in engineering the last retreat by a French government on major economic reforms when, in 1995, they led t