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Overview
- A national intersyndicale day of action took place on Tuesday with unions and groups mobilizing across France and giving sharply different turnout figures — about 206,000 people reported by the Interior Ministry and more than 300,000 claimed by the CGT.
- Hundreds of lycées were blocked during the day, producing clashes with police, roughly 440 arrests reported by the Interior Ministry, and officials saying at least ten education staff and multiple pupils were injured.
- Ministries logged strike rates that were modest in scale: roughly 9.6% of state civil servants on strike and about 13.7% average among teachers, figures that the unions say understate the protest’s breadth.
- Firefighters joined large Paris marches — unions said about 10,000 in the capital — and their delegations held talks with ministers that officials described as producing limited signals of concession.
- The mobilization has sharpened political tensions, with LFI figures visible at school blockades, regional protests from places such as La Réunion highlighting local cost pressures, and unions warning of further action as the government moves toward its budget presentation.