Then you will have to strike out on your own.
"French unions strike over retirement plan" By Bloomberg News | September 7, 2010
French unions are striking nationwide as lawmakers begin debating President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement age.
Transport workers began walking off the job last night, and today many schools, post offices, and government offices will be closed. Demonstrations are planned in 137 cities....
The bid to shore up the retirement system may calm bond investors....
That's who governments serve: banks.
Also today, in London the city’s 3.5 million Tube travelers also face disruption today, with as many as 10,000 of the subway’s drivers, station staff, and engineers staging the first of a series of 24-hour strikes over employment cuts.
The walkout protesting against 800 job eliminations and restricted hours for ticket offices started at 5 p.m. after talks broke down last week....
--more--"Translation: Europeans don't put up with the s*** AmeriKans do.
"French, London strikes are likely a prelude" by Angela Doland, Associated Press | September 8, 2010
PARIS — French strikers disrupted trains and planes, hospitals and mail delivery yesterday amid massive street protests over plans to raise the retirement age. Across the English Channel, London subway workers unhappy with staff cuts walked off the job.
The protests look like the prelude to a season of strikes in Europe, from Spain to the Czech Republic, as heavily indebted governments cut costs and chip away at some cherished but costly benefits that underpin the European good life — a scaling-back process that has gained urgency with Greece’s $140 billion bailout.
Yeah, all so LOOTING BANKSTERS can get PAID!
Also see: French Wake-Up Call
Oh, I think they are wide awake.
In France, where people poured into the streets in 220 cities, setting off flares and beating drums, a banner in the southern port city of Marseille called for Europe-wide solidarity: “Let’s Refuse Austerity Plans!’’ The Interior Ministry said more than 1.1 million people demonstrated throughout France, while the CFDT union put the number at 2.5 million.
Some commuters were annoyed by the disruptions — even in strike-inured France....
Pfft!
I am SO SICK of CORPORATE MEDIA!!!
Prime Minister Francois Fillon reminded the French that it could be worse: In nearly all European countries, the current debate is over raising the retirement age to 67 or 68, he said. Germany has decided to bump the retirement age from 65 to 67, for example, and the US Social Security system is gradually raising the retirement age to 67.
You know, somehow I don't think the French people really give a flying f*** about what other countries have!
That sense of perspective was missing from many of the French protests, where some slogans bordered on the hysterical....
Nothing like a BIASED and INSULTING corporate media to give you the news.
As for hysterical, how about all the war lies you guy spew, huh?
Well, enjoy the New World Disorder, globalist s***s:
"French unions plan new strikes" by Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press | September 9, 2010
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed yesterday to press ahead with his contested overhaul of the country’s pension system and unions promptly announced new national strikes and protests, a day after bringing more than 1 million people to the streets.
Or more.
The conservative leader said he is “attentive to the worries that were expressed’’ by protesters, who protested in 220 French cities Tuesday.
Translation: He could not ignore them.
But Sarkozy reiterated it was “out of the question’’ to give up on the plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 under the reform.
Related: The French Pentagon
I noticed the government had enough money for the War Ministry.
With baby boomers reaching retirement age and life expectancy on the rise, the government insists the raised retirement age is necessary for the money-draining pension system to break even by 2018. The overhaul is seen as a cornerstone of Sarkozy’s political agenda and a key test ahead of 2012 presidential elections.
All so BANKERS can GET PAID!
Unions said it is a threat to hard-won social benefits and want the measure drastically scaled back. Mobilized by Tuesday’s protests, six leading unions met yesterday and announced new nationwide strikes and demonstrations for Sept. 23....
That is one thing the French are good at!
Labor leaders have called Tuesday’s strike a major success. The strike forced the closure of schools and snarled traffic throughout the country Tuesday, as more than 1.1 million people demonstrated throughout France, according to the Interior Ministry. The CFDT union put the number of protesters at 2.5 million.
I tend to believe the union count. Governments lie.
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Related: Portugal’s debt sale eases fears over Europe
And here is another bridge the French could build:
"Romanian Gypsy leader disparages Sarkozy" by Associated Press | September 9, 2010
COSTESTI, Romania — A Romanian Gypsy leader yesterday compared President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to Romania’s pro-Nazi wartime leader, following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France.
You can't get through one day in the paper without seeing the word Hitler or Nazis.
Also see: France's Genocide of the Gypsies
Where is the ADL?
Speaking at an annual Gypsy feast held on a hill at the foots of the Carpathian Mountains, Iulian Radulescu said that Gypsies, also known as Roma, are being unfairly expelled from France.
Do they know Dracula?
France has sent back about 1,000 Gypsies to Romania and Bulgaria in recent weeks as part of its crime-fighting measures. Sarkozy has linked Roma to crime, calling the camps in which some of them live sources of trafficking, exploitation of children, and prostitution.
You say that about illegals over here and the agenda-pushing, supremacist Zionist MSM hammers you as a racist.
There are between 10 million and 12 million Gypsies in the European Union, most living in dire circumstances, victims of poverty, discrimination, violence, and unemployment.
Somehow I sense that the E.U. and globalism has failed, don't you?
An estimated 1.5 million of them live in Romania, which has the largest population of Gypsies in Europe. The expulsions have been criticized from several quarters, including the Roman Catholic Church and the United Nations.
Then they must be doing the right thing if those groups are opposed.
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Gee, and I thought Nico had a way with the ladies.
Related:
"Thousands oppose Gypsies’ expulsion
PARIS — Thousands of people marched in Paris and around France yesterday to protest expulsions of Gypsies and other new security measures adopted by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government. Protesters blew whistles and beat drums in the capital, the largest demonstration among those in at least 135 cities and towns across France and elsewhere in Europe (AP)."
Wow, France sure is seeing lots of protests these days.
So have the police killed anyone yet?
"Court asked to drop case against police" by Associated Press | September 11, 2010
PARIS — French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a court official said yesterday.
Lawyers for the victims’ families protested, saying the move would give the police officers undeserved impunity.
Five years after the unrest, tensions between youth and police still simmer, and sometimes explode into violence in neglected housing developments around France.
On Oct. 27, 2005, Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were electrocuted while hiding from police in a power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Another boy with them had severe burns.
Two police officers were charged with “nonassistance to a person in danger,’’ which carries up to five years in prison and up to $95,400 in fines.
The Bobigny prosecutor’s office has submitted a request to drop the charges, saying there is not enough evidence to show the officers knew the two teens were inside the power station when they died, according to the judicial official, who was not authorized to be publicly named.
It’s now up to investigating judges to accept the request or ignore it and send the case to trial.
Two lawyers for the families, Jean-Pierre Mignard and Emmanuel Tordjman, said in a statement the prosecutor’s request “is aimed at covering with impunity an action contrary to the law and to police ethics.’’
Local youths, blaming police for the deaths, set cars and property afire in an eruption of anger that spread for three weeks to similar neighborhoods with large Arab and black populations.
Oh, the French ghettos.
