In Europe it repeats every year. Politicians try to steal pensions, workers strike, politicians back off. In America I think the workers would roll over. I wish the workers good luck and I will tolerate the temporary transport disruption if that's the cost of not being America.
My experience was good: on my way in Paris -> Brussels arrived 10min early, and on my way out Brussels -> Paris I had ~15min delay (apparently because Police had to board the train before Brussels).
Eurostar was fine for me. Getting to the Eurostar within Germany apparently sucked for some. But I took a later train and didn't have issues there either.
As usual, there is hardly a day that doesn't happen, and it got worse this year as they finally started some repairs on critical routes, suppressing many alternatives, or average speeds.