The leader of France's hardline CGT union has issued a strike call for Tuesday, December 2nd, in protest at the proposed 2026 Budget.
CGT leader Sophie Binet told RMC radio: "We're calling on all working men and women to take to the streets on December 2nd.
"We will be in a vital phase of the Budget debates and it's vital that all workers get involved".
She described next year's proposed spending plans as a "horror show" that "remains catastrophic, especially for hospitals".
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She added that the FSU and Solidaires unions will join the action although France's largest union - the CFDT - will not.
It is not clear how well-supported the strike will be - or which sectors will be affected - although strikes called by a single union generally don't cause widespread disruption.
At this stage the call is for a single-day strike only.
The strike call comes as the highly contentious 2026 Budget continues its journey through the Assemblée nationale - with the parliamentary situation on a knife edge, it remains possible that the budget will bring down a third government in a row, and force prime minister Sébastien Lecornu to resign for a second time.
Wednesday marks a crucial phase in the debates, when plans to scrap the highly contentious changes to the French pension age will be debated - the axing of the the 2023 reform was a condition of the centre-left Parti Socialiste's support for the budget in its current form.
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