Last Thursday in France, school teachers, air traffic controllers, train operators as well as many other professionals went on strike over the governmental changes that have been imposed by President Hollande. Hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets in protest of the current state of the country rather than just its labor issues. France’s current unemployment rate has hovered around 10% and nearly a third of those unemployed are ages 15 to 24. Those who did not participate in the strike were forced to commute to work on overcrowded trains as a result of the limited service that was offered because of the strike.
See "Crippling Strike in France May Have Been About More Than Labor Law", CELESTINE BOHLEN, The New York Times, April 5, 2016