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Why what's happening in France isn't 'just another French strike
Christian Science Monitor ^ | JUNE 3, 2016 | Sara Miller Llana

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; strike; unions

1 posted on 06/03/2016 10:52:46 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Europe is dying, and they are hastening that death.


2 posted on 06/03/2016 10:56:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: aquila48; newgeezer

Sure reminds me of a Missouri college football player strike. The results should make them reconsider.


3 posted on 06/03/2016 10:59:28 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: aquila48

Well all the flooding is giving the French a good wash


4 posted on 06/03/2016 11:13:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Robert DeLong

Maybe they just need to speed up the mass importing of peaceful, moderate muslims, all that welfare spending is bound to stimulate the economy


5 posted on 06/03/2016 11:15:04 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: aquila48

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.


6 posted on 06/03/2016 11:19:59 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: aquila48

Guess Hollande will be looking for another job soon.


7 posted on 06/03/2016 12:40:14 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: aquila48

“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.


8 posted on 06/03/2016 12:44:18 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: aquila48

Bye, bye France.


9 posted on 06/03/2016 2:07:24 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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