jim
--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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