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French Current Events Posted by Tim Hildreth on Dec 3, 2019
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December isn’t typically la saison des grèves (strike season) in France, but this year the month that usually kicks off the holiday season will being with la grande grève du 5 décembre (the great strike of December 5). What’s the problem? In what could be the largest social movement in years, “plusieurs millions de salariés du public…
The French Love to Strike Posted by Transparent Language on Nov 18, 2008
I remember when I was living in Paris, it seemed like there were always grèves all around the city. We would have to walk every so often in the mornings to class as the metro was not running (the SNCF loves to go on strike). The American Embassy would constantly warn us that we should…