I understand it is over T&Cs for new starters, well worth fighting for especially in ATC.
That's their legal reason, but today's action is much more to do with the fact that there's also widespread national protest at the moment about the introduction of a new set of labour laws (the law "El Khomri"):
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/20...-and-the-euro/
The ATC action is timed to tie in with widespread demos today (e.g. our local airport ground access is blockaded as I write, and lorry drivers are blocking access to several fuel oil refineries - we engaged in a bit of panic topping up last night...).
captplaystation:
There are bigger things brewing in France, and it won't just be ATC on strike as this Summer progresses.
+1....Mr Valls verses the unions..wouldn't want to be in the middle of that....