French Prison Guards Clash with French Police

(Paris, France) French law stipulates that prison guards don't have the right to strike but they couldn't care less about the law. They're unionized, dammit!

French prison guards clashed with police Monday during demonstrations against jail overcrowding that disrupted transfers of inmates at the country's major detention centres.

French police fired tear gas at protesters at the Fleury-Merogis prison, one of Europe's biggest, after they set fire to wooden crates in a bid to block access to and exits from the jail. [...]

Three unions representing prison guards organised the day of protest following a spate of prison suicides blamed on overcrowding and poor conditions at France's 200-odd jails.

Obviously, the prison guard union membership believes it is above the law. As I recall, the air traffic controllers in the U.S. thought the same when they went on strike illegally back in the 1980s. President Reagan fired their asses. I'm not sure the same could be done with prison guards, even if the French were so inclined, which I don't think is the case.