[lbo-talk] Paris shut down

[joanna bujes]

My sister just returned from Paris and reports that there's a 
nation-wide? city-wide? transport strike that has shut everything down. 
She missed her plane, almost twice.

Apparently, transportation workers are striking for the continuation of 
the 35 hour week and of benefits -- health care, pensions, etc.

Nice to know there's an organized working class somewhere. It's funny; I 
checked Le Monde and there's nothing in it about the strike, but my 
sister says the city was completely paralyzed.

Joanna