Coggeh
29th January 2009, 17:47
Recieved Email From SP Branch:
France is prepared for severe disruption today as the country's eight
labour unions representing public and private sector workers have
called a one-day strike.
Both the unions and the government expect massive turnout, with an
opinion poll published by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanchesaying 69
percent of French people backed it.
In what is expected to be the largest such action since President
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in May 2007, the unions are demanding that
the government do more to counter rising unemployment and falling
purchasing power as France enters its first recession in 16 years.
The eight unions represent the bulk of France�s 1.9 million-strong
unionized workforce. "The government needs to change its methods,"
Jean- Claude Mailly, general secretary of the Force Ouvrier union, said
today in an interview on Canal Plus television.
France is prepared for severe disruption today as the country's eight
labour unions representing public and private sector workers have
called a one-day strike.
Both the unions and the government expect massive turnout, with an
opinion poll published by the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanchesaying 69
percent of French people backed it.
In what is expected to be the largest such action since President
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected in May 2007, the unions are demanding that
the government do more to counter rising unemployment and falling
purchasing power as France enters its first recession in 16 years.
The eight unions represent the bulk of France�s 1.9 million-strong
unionized workforce. "The government needs to change its methods,"
Jean- Claude Mailly, general secretary of the Force Ouvrier union, said
today in an interview on Canal Plus television.