France on National Strike over Pension Reductions
 

https://news.sky.com/story/france-to...egins-11878533


Macron
is in trouble over this move.


[Travellers heading to and from
France face five days of chaos
due to a general strike across the country.
French public sector workers
began the walkouts on
Thursday over French President
Emmanuel Macron's plans to
reform the nation's pension system.
Flights, trains and buses are being
hit by the biggest wave of industrial
action the country has faced for decades.]

When are they not on strike

:rolleyes:

Just go in 6 days time.

lmao we're always on strike, so it's not like it's anything unusual to us.
Yellow vests, lawyers, students etc etc etc You name it, it's on strike.

Today almost no train or public transport worked in the whole country. I had to work from home and let it watch burn. I'm not even watching the news because this is ridiculous.
And I could not care less about the reform, it's not a bad one actually. Let them eat cake!

Same thing in 1995 in France.

Nice to hear from you Capt. Remy Sir.

Good for them France is not a nation of appeasers! They fight for their rights, I wish to God we were more like them.

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France gets a Photo on two newspapers/

Meanwhile
Macron demands Pension Reform and Cuts.

No Kizzy its not out way
France has more Angry Farmers
and more are now poor.

Yes arista...we have more poor everyone... The PM today said he would block strikes on public transport. So that's workers rights tampered with post brexit.

great news no one providing a public service should be allowed to strike

Bus and rail travel are not public services, they're owned and operated by private enterprise.

public transport

trains, busses

Its a bit more complicated than that, for instance in London

Is London transport in the public sector? ... Technically, Transport for London is a private company that's wholly owned by the government. It's responsible for enacting the mayor's transport strategy as a whole, across a number of different transportation modes

any company that knows as the public rely on it to get to work etc and strike based on that reason should be targetted

They strike for that cynical reason

its disgusting

It isnt 'owned by the government' ...it's owned by us! The PM works for us, it's not complicated.

Nobody goes on strike for fun.. It's for safety, pay or conditions. That is perfectly legitimate no matter what sector you're in.

rather funny that its a certain type of job that keeps going on strike?

Public transport. .not public service there's a very big difference.

Public toilet...
Public library..
Anything that is for the public is called public :/

Not funny at all, if safety is compromised then it should be expected.. they have PUBLIC safety to think about.

yes i believe they have stooped to trying that old trick thankfully that has been addressed by the rail company.

just two posts up you said this

Bus and rail travel are not public services, they're owned and operated by private enterprise.


now the public own it....make your mind up!

Old trick? ... is that how you see this, how odd.
So they can compromise public safety, the public who pay extortionate ticket prices in some cases? All the while creaming off millions on profits. If that's ethical corprate practice to you that's fine.

Its business. When you sell and car i expect you try to get the best price you can and not an "ethical price".

when you buy things you try to get the best deal you can?

Obviously it depends who are striking, in the rest of the country we don't have publicly owned (not government owned) services.

In London should that still be the case then they should have the right to strike, they are not emergency public services it would endanger life for them to strike.
It would remove hard fought rights to prevent this action if the trade union called for it.

It shows a creeping autocracy taking the power from the workers and placing it in the hands of the govt. For me this smacks of wanting a nation of proles who have no option but to bend at will.

You can't run an economy on the cheap.