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The strike caused fewer transport disruptions than feared, though unions have vowed further action against President Emmanuel Macron in coming weeks – in particular over a hostly contested pensions reform.
"It's a shame it had to come to blockades for something to happen," said Nadine, a 45-year-old employee in the metalworking industry who was among more than 1,000 demonstrators in Strasbourg, northeast France.
"But today if we don't block anything, no one listens," she said.
Among a crowd of some 1,800 marching in the southern city of Montpellier, Magali Mallet, a medical secretary, said she was there because many workers were "living on a knife's edge".
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