{"id":309010,"date":"2025-08-01T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309010\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:34:20","slug":"impact-on-rail-pharmacy-and-education-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/309010\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact on Rail, Pharmacy, and Education Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pharmacists and rail workers continue to strike<\/p>\n

\n Major protests are expected in September, with strikes in the health sector taking place in August
\n Alexandros Michailidis\/Shutterstock\n <\/p>\n

Strikes across several sectors are expected in France this August, including in pharmacies and on the national rail network.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This comes as France\u2019s third-largest union has called for a national strike to begin in September and run for three months<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also calls for a public \u2018mobilisation\u2019 in protest to the 2026 budget<\/a>, also scheduled to begin in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Connexion will update this article if any further strike action is announced to take place in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pharmacy staff – ongoing\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strikes in the pharmacy sector have been ongoing since the end of June<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initial action by emergency and night-time pharmacists was later enlarged to a wider strike in the sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several unions are supporting the action, which may make it harder to find an open pharmacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no scheduled end-date for the strike which has also seen unions threaten to block roads and affect medicine shipments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rail workers – until September 1\u00a0<\/p>\n

A summer of strike action was called across France\u2019s rail network, although disruptions have been relatively minor so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A change in strategy saw the SUD-Rail union switch from concentrated action over one or two days \u2013 as seen in May and the start of June \u2013 to a wider strike period covering mid June-September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The union hopes that small-scale local walkouts with short notice <\/a>will be more disruptive to the network, after major national action in May and June was largely countered by state-rail operator SNCF having time to prepare and find replacement staff and volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It means disruption is hard to predict, both in terms of location and scale, however so far it has been relatively minor and few problems have been highlighted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regional (TER) services are perhaps more likely to be impacted, as strikes on these networks only require local as opposed to national co-ordination between workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teachers and school staff: August 18 to October 18\u00a0<\/p>\n

Strike action across the education sector has been called due to ongoing complaints over working conditions, a decrease in the quality of education in France, and the proposals of the 2026 budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It covers teachers of age groups from primary schools to universities, meaning disruption could be widespread across the whole education sector.<\/p>\n

The 2025-2026 school year does not begin until September 1, but strike action in advance may disrupt preliminary back-to-school organisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

October 18 is the end of the first school term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teachers at primary school need to announce their intention to strike several days beforehand meaning parents will be aware of closures in advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At higher levels however this is not always the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmacists and rail workers continue to strike Major protests are expected in September, with strikes in the health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-309010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953064463064073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}