[lbo-talk] NYT on French unions

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>[This is pretty funny - they're soooo rigid, but they're also immensely 
>popular. And all without gangsters. I wonder if anyone at the AFL-CIO is 
>asking how the French unions can cause such trouble with just 8% density. 
>Maybe it's all that red wine.]

Actually, according to Craig S. Smith, it's because the unions:


>... have found a willing populace, thanks perhaps to the romantic legacy of 
>the French Revolution.

So what the hell is wrong with the romantic legacy of the *American* 
Revolution?  Why are Americans so willing to take a broomstick up the ass 
from employers?

Carl