Call to toughen transport strike after pension reform speech Dozens of railway workers and members of the Sud-Rail union gather near the Gare de l'Est to listen to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe present the pension reform project. After the presentation, Bruno Poncet - Federal Secretary of Sud-Rail, the third largest union in France's national rail company, SNCF - remains defiant, saying: "Railway workers are calling for the national strike to continue, and to be reinforced... I say to those who are struggling in the transport sector, come with us, stop working, let us create real resistance to this bill and make the government back down because what we are experiencing today is historic because we are breaking a pension system which, even if it was not the fairest in the world, was more equal than this (new, Eds.) one." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES