Posted on 06/03/2016 10:52:46 AM PDT by aquila48
PARIS — Fuel shortages, cancelled flights, disrupted trains: France is on strike yet again. The stakes get higher each day. The Euro 2016 soccer championship, which will see hundreds of thousands of visitors traveling to France to root for their national soccer teams, is set to start on June 10. At the same time, Paris is dealing with a constant terrorist threat and now record flooding.
From afar, it’s easy to see these latest strikes, prompted by a new government attempt at labor reform, as the exclamation of an over-unionized nation stubbornly holding onto protections and privileges that are hardly competitive in the global economy. France’s unemployment rate hasn’t significantly budged since President François Hollande took office.
But union membership here is below average for industrialized nations, and the unions are bitterly divided between a reformist wing and a more radical one – the one leading these strikes.
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Europe is dying, and they are hastening that death.
Sure reminds me of a Missouri college football player strike. The results should make them reconsider.
Well all the flooding is giving the French a good wash
Maybe they just need to speed up the mass importing of peaceful, moderate muslims, all that welfare spending is bound to stimulate the economy
One of the guys we were talking to in France said that he put trips into Belgium on his schedule in order to buy gas.
Guess Hollande will be looking for another job soon.
“an over-unionized nation stubbornly holding onto protections and privileges”
That’s it in a nut shell, every time one union gets a concession it bites into another union (or group of unions) privileges. It is a vicious circle. I wonder how the pecking order of unions are arranged? I would imaging its a pyramid structure with transportation union on top.
Bye, bye France.
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