Newsletter No. 26
JANUARY 2005
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French strikers have wide support Public sector workers throughout France are striking against the Chirac government’s efforts to under-mine the 35-hour work week and dismantle public services. Teachers, rail, postal and energy workers, doctors and other health workers and civil servants are striking to oppose funding and job cuts and pressing for improved pay and job security. Despite the inconvenience caused, 65 per cent of French people surveyed sympathise with the unions’ decision to strike (‘Sympathy for strikers...’ SMH 20.1.05) |