France Is on Strike

by Donna Jablonski, Mar 28, 2006

French transit workers, teachers and others are on strike and in the streets today protesting a new labor law pushed through by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin that makes it easier for bosses to fire young workers during their first two years on the job.
 
In this country every day, employers fire at-will workers who don’t have the protection of union contracts—young, old and in between.
 
Reuters reports 250,000 people supporting students and unions took to the streets in Marseille, 60,000 in Grenoble and 40,000 in Pau in the southwest. Ongoing protests over the law have disrupted “classes at 69 of France’s 84 universities, as well as at nearly a quarter of the country’s 4,300 high schools,” according to The New York Times.
 

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