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French Transportation Heads Toward Normal

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-France-Strikes.html

OK, doc, we know what 'normal' means - out again next week? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Roger:

OK, doc, we know what 'normal' means - out again next week? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif</font>

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French Strike Causes Only Minor Problems

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2003/06/1056104225.html

Wow, rewind back to 1995 when a center-right government was pretty much forced out of power because of this same topic (pensions).

The mentality in France *has* change between now and then; people may not like the reforms, but they will ackowledge that they are very necessary.

The strikes went strong the first day or two, but slowly fizzled. There were very few problems in greater Paris yesterday.

The workers have greater priorities: planning rheir vacations. Remember tbat the French take a month off, either July or August, so they wouldn't want to interfere with that.

The unions say their ptrotests will be back in force after the vacation period.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Roger:
The workers have greater priorities: planning rheir vacations. Remember tbat the French take a month off, either July or August, so they wouldn't want to interfere with that.

The unions say their ptrotests will be back in force after the vacation period.</font>

August here, but why bother? It's been voted on http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

In any case, I'll be moving out of France by then, so I'm safe http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif


[This message has been edited by dctorres (edited 06-20-2003).]