Originally Posted by
AlicorporateUK
The French unions (and their Italian counterparts) make a significant contribution to the strike-prone image amongst foreigners - they are both stuck in 1971 and that is a fact, not an element of folklore.
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Indeed, France has now taken the title of strike leader among big European countries according to the European Trade Union Institute or International Labor Organization (excluding small countries like Cyprus or Estonia). Italy is well behind. One can argue statistics at nausea, but conclusions are clear: France is a strike-prone country and the trens is bad:
https://www.etui.org/Topics/Trade-un...on-3-July-2016
I have been in Hong Kong for over ten years, so I am a "foreigner", but some of the posts here are reminiscent of what my Italian friends used to say about Italy twenty years ago: " Sure there are strike, but we can smartly manage around them".
But visitors cannot.