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France on Strike

  • 26-05-2016 02:49PM
    #1
    drdeadlift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭


    I'm just looking at how the French go about striking.Why are our strikes always on a Saturday?

    Nice to see a nation willing to fight for what it wants.


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  • #2
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    drdeadlift wrote: »
    Nice to see a nation willing to fight for what it wants.

    If only it did that during WW2...


  • #3
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    It must be the summer.

    When do the air traffic controllers have their strike?


  • #4
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Our strikes aren't always on a Saturday.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It must be the summer.

    When do the air traffic controllers have their strike?

    They're the ones that started this one I think.


  • #6
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    It must be the summer.

    When do the air traffic controllers have their strike?
    No, it's because the government are trying to introduce a new labour law, which almost everybody is against (the workers think it's too harsh, and the business owners think it's not going far enough).
    The government are trying to stifle debate on it and people are getting pissed about it.


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  • #7
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    They're the ones that started this one I think.
    No, they aren't. Lots of different people are on strikes for the same reason. Students, refinery workers, air traffic controllers, transport workers, public service workers etc etc etc.


  • #8
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    No.

    the Air traffic control folk aren't striking?

    is that a first?


  • #9
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    the Air traffic control folk aren't striking?

    is that a first?
    They ARE striking, but they are not the ones that started this.


  • #10
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    They ARE striking,

    Oh thank god!

    It's important in a changing world that some things remain constant.

    43 strikes in the last 7 years.
    This consistency is needed.... may they continue to hold the sky's of Europe hostage to their every whim!


  • #11
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Great little strikers, the French. When they strike, ye fcuking well know about it! Schit grinds to a standstill and trucks block everything up. Got to admire a French strike, to be honest :)


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  • #12
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Stigura wrote: »
    Great little strikers, the French. When they strike, ye fcuking well know about it! Schit grinds to a standstill and trucks block everything up. Got to admire a French strike, to be honest :)

    Except for that one against the Irish in 2009, when the cheating bastards handed the ball beforehand.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLUxMRYJAso


  • #13
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    No, they aren't.

    According to news reports this morning they started and were joined by the others.

    But it hardly matters.


  • #14
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #15
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    If only it did that during WW2...

    They did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance

    The French suffered terribly during the war in reprisal attacks from the Germans, thanks to those who collaborated with the Nazis. Sadly those collaborators exist in every country.


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    You know what they call a Big Mac in France?

    Merde


  • #17
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    the gasoline doesn't last very long


  • #18
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    According to news reports this morning they started and were joined by the others.

    But it hardly matters.

    Ah yes and we all know that news reports are true all the time. These strikes have been going on months and not started by air traffic controllers.


  • #19
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    An industrial dispute in France of all places :confused: Bleedin France? Well... I've heard It all now, I don't know what to believe anymore :o


  • #20
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Ah yes and we all know that news reports are true all the time. These strikes have been going on months and not started by air traffic controllers.

    But was this one started by them?

    You seem to be personally invested in this. Are you or your spouse a French air traffic controller or something?


  • #21
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    The French are always striking, it's their culture.


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  • #22
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    RobertKK wrote: »
    The French are always striking, it's their culture.

    I know a French woman who's very striking. It's her genes.


  • #23
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    No but I live here and I find reporting in Ireland of events in France not terribly accurate.


  • #24
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    If only it did that during WW2...

    Victors control history. Or in English speaking countries. Anglo Saxons control history.

    The French did fight in WWII. They lost. It was the British who retreated.


  • #25
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Up to 40% in some suburbs is totally disingenuous posting. Because every country probably has areas with 40% unemployment, even at times of full employment.


  • #26
    KingBrian2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,360 ✭✭✭KingBrian2


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    No but I live here and I find reporting in Ireland of events in France not terribly accurate.

    We have France24 on TG4 most nights. We get a front view seat into France & the Continent. It's the fact that everyday Dubliners are not going by Paris or Cherbourg timetable.


  • #27
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #28
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    In fairness PB that was a completely separate issue, it was a reaction from youths in the banlieus to their perceived treatment by the authorities. The strikes now are not happening in the banlieus and have a different support base.


  • #29
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Going back to 2005 is disenguous as well. In 2011 free market London had riots.

    The banlieus in France have social problems. So have Detroit suburbs. So has London.


  • #30
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    No but I live here and I find reporting in Ireland of events in France not terribly accurate.

    Is there fuel in the pumps? Heading over for two weeks.. don't want to be walking week 2..


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  • #31
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    They said on the national news this evening that 1/3 of stations are out of petrol or have shortages so it's no so bad yet.


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