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PARIS—Regional train traffic in France was cut by about half on Tuesday as several unions called a nationwide strike, seeking to capitalize on anger with decades-high inflation to expand a weeks-long industrial action at oil refineries to other sectors.
There were also some disruption to schools, as the strike primarily affected the public sector.
Trade union leaders were hoping workers would be energized by the government’s decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots to try and get fuel flowing again, a decision some say put in jeopardy the right to strike.
But a survey by Elabe pollsters for BFM TV showed only 39 percent of the public backed Tuesday’s call for a nationwide strike, while 49 percent opposed it, and growing numbers opposed the strike by oil refinery workers....