A hardline French union is planning to disrupt public transport and emergency services around Euro 2016 games.
Force Ouvriere revealed its plan at the end of a week when nationwide protests against labour law reforms brought parts of the country to a standstill.
Patrice Clos, who runs the union's transport division, said: "We have decided that each match day in the towns concerned the federation would call strikes.
"It was decided that as this law touches on the economy of the workers, that we would hit the economy of the Euros ... until it is withdrawn."
The sectors affected during the football tournament, which runs for a month from 10 June, will include heavy goods traffic, public transport, ambulances and bin collectors.
Unions have also called for a day of industrial action on 10 June if President Francois Hollande does not return to the negotiating table.
The new threat came as France's civil aviation body asked airlines to fuel up abroad despite riot police clearing all but one of the country's fuel depot blockades.
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