Anti-Uber taxi drivers block Paris road during strike

BBC reports:

Taxi drivers have blocked a major Paris road, in a protest against competition from the app-based taxi service Uber.

The drivers, who were also protesting against unlicensed cab firms, joined a nationwide public sector strike.

Millions of teachers, health workers and air traffic controllers are protesting against labour reforms.

At least 20 taxi drivers were arrested for "violence, carrying weapons and starting a fire", police said. Some had set bonfires on the road before dawn.

Firefighters later extinguished them.

Limiting competition is all what the restraint of trade is all about.