The French rail operator has confirmed that every year since 1947 there has been at least one strike on the network. And that doesn't necessarily mean that pre-1947 was a golden age of industrial relations - just that SNCF's records are incomplete before then. Le saviez-vous ❓depuis 1947, il n'y a pas eu une année sans grève à la SNCF. According to SNCF's data, 1956 was the calmest year on the network, with with just 0.01 working days per employee lost. The biggest number of working days lost was 1968 - the famous year when mass strikes gripped France for many months - with 4.7 million strikes days in total among the company's workforce, which at that time numbered 320,000 people.

Source: The Local December 20, 2019 12:00 UTC