Speaking of the French

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4335043.stm

You know, I secretly harbour a desire to be French. I reckon, out of
all the European countries, they are closest to being governed with the
support of the people. Heaven help the French government that steps out
of line.

Anyone remember the farmers driving sheep through the centre of Paris.
I'd love to see that news clip with a farmer beating a riot policemen
over the head with a sheep.

 

Bunch of bloody whingers. We should let the French government borrow
Maggie Thatcher for a few years to crush their unions - that'll sort
'em out.

 

Hmmm..."and in the red corner we have..". Be an interesting match, cos
I dont think the average French worker needs a union to go on strike.

 

Maybe not, but without the power of their blackmailing-brothers behind
them I doubt their little hissy-fits would achieve anything other than
unemployment (with a bit of luck).

 

Have you noticed that their government seems to listen to them and when it
doesn't they throw the toys out of the pram. In contrast our government
just doesn't give a **** what the people think. Compare and contrast.

 

....or indeed, an excuse.

 

It couldn't be done. The right to strike isn't dependent on organic law
like in the UK. It's enshrined in the preamble to the Constitution of 1946
(Article 7), and this preamble is referenced in the current Constitution,
that of 1958.

It's thus (practically) impossible to 'outlaw' strikes here, for the right
to strike is, to borrow a term from another similar document, the Supreme
Law of the Land.