As I mentioned in a previous blog, the French like to work less than everyone else.
So of course when Sarkozy may have said that the retirement age would increase from 60 to 62, there was a national outcry.
Of course, although still being the lowest in Europe by quite some margin, the working population thought they should strike again!
We only had a national strike about this last month!
I'm guessing that'll it'll continue on a monthly basis until Sarkozy puts retirement back to 60 again.
And it's not like people aren't taking it seriously......I went into the cantine for lunch today and there were trade union people handing out leaflets.
The basic gist (amongst other communist propaganda) was that if you wanted to go on strike,a bus/buses would pick you up at the entrance of the office at 10am, drive you, free of charge, to join the protest march in central Paris at 2pm, let you take part in the march and then have you back at the office by 7pm.
So there we go. The French don't take many things seriously (like work) but, when they want to, they can take things very seriously indeed; just look at the football team!!!
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