Strikes in 2025

[johncrossley]

Where can we expect strikes this year and where would we be surprised to see strikes?

There's a national strike on Monday in Belgium affecting all public transport.

 

[nwales58]

France. Every year.
Italy. Every year but at least they keep a nice spreadsheet up to date:

Scioperi - mit2

scioperi.mit.gov.it

 

[signed]

Portugal had quite a few strikes last year

France, but basically only on Thursdays. Apart from large-scale issues, it's rare to find strikes that not on a Thursday

You can follow on this website :

C'est la grève – Liste des grèves en France

www.cestlagreve.fr

 

[DanielB]

In the Netherlands the negotiations for a new collective labour agreement for NS have just started. And the agreement for regional buses and trams (CAO OV) expires at the end of March. For both negotiations in the past have resulted in strikes with varying impact.
Won't impact the entire country and all operators at once, as franchises with regional trains have a separate collective labour agreement which is still valid till the 31st of December 2025.

 

[dutchflyer]

As above: those latin-speaking countries are always in that league.
Additional: on community.eurail - a forum also done by NS/NL and on the very same basics, deals mostly with INTERRail (whch many a Brit posting on it seems now convinced it is not for them anymore....) will also post all known to them strikes on that forum-but mostly at very short notice.
In NL- IF there is a train strike it nearly always means no train at all will run. IN FR or IT mostly a fraction will still run. In some countries there is now even a legally ordered ´minimum social service´ to be maintained (I think thats IT, perhaps also FR), but thats often the same as ´smoking prohibited here´-not enforced that much.

 

[P Binnersley]

Italy. Every year but at least they keep a nice spreadsheet up to date:

Scioperi - mit2

scioperi.mit.gov.it

Be careful of "short notice" strikes. I was in Italy in November and train crew went on strike because a member of staff had been assaulted the previous afternoon. Fortunately it was a weekday so rush hour services still ran.