Commentaires sur : Strikes and work : a French story http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/ Nothing more than thoughts about everyday life Wed, 28 May 2008 11:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Par : mannenyuki http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-25 mannenyuki Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:59:08 +0000 http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-25 C'est la fête... C’est la fête…

]]> Par : keitokawamura http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-7 keitokawamura Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:27:42 +0000 http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-7 It's going better yes, fortunately! But I believe that strike is a tradition in France...French people are NEVER satisfied (especially the RATP and SNCF guys), and that's true, every year they want something more, and each time they're unhappy, they go on strike, play the selfish card, paralyze the country. Come on, they're working 35 hours a week, that's less than a high school student schedule! And the negociations wednesday...4 hours to come to this : "Nous reconduisons la grève au jeudi". Okay...hopefully it's nearly finished, well, no, they planned another strike on December if no agreement is found... Actually I quite agree with the students, but I understand why train drivers should have a specific retirement plan : is their job difficult ? Mmmmh I don't think so. All the drivers I saw were drinking coffee, reading newspapers. And the trains are almost automated now : automatic doors, brake, accel etc. It's not as if they had to put coal in to made it work...There are lots of harder jobs (fireman, doctors etc), and those people could have demands too, but do they stop working because of that? No, because they got responsability. Going on strike is too selfish and easy. Like this, everyone could go on strike. Every jobs has its flaws and its advantages (when you work at the SNCF or the RATP...the advantages are not overmuch). That's life ! This social events just confirms the image that France and French people have around the world : never satisfied, lazy and strike champions... It’s going better yes, fortunately! But I believe that strike is a tradition in France…French people are NEVER satisfied (especially the RATP and SNCF guys), and that’s true, every year they want something more, and each time they’re unhappy, they go on strike, play the selfish card, paralyze the country. Come on, they’re working 35 hours a week, that’s less than a high school student schedule!
And the negociations wednesday…4 hours to come to this : “Nous reconduisons la grève au jeudi”. Okay…hopefully it’s nearly finished, well, no, they planned another strike on December if no agreement is found…
Actually I quite agree with the students, but I understand why train drivers should have a specific retirement plan : is their job difficult ? Mmmmh I don’t think so. All the drivers I saw were drinking coffee, reading newspapers. And the trains are almost automated now : automatic doors, brake, accel etc. It’s not as if they had to put coal in to made it work…There are lots of harder jobs (fireman, doctors etc), and those people could have demands too, but do they stop working because of that? No, because they got responsability. Going on strike is too selfish and easy. Like this, everyone could go on strike. Every jobs has its flaws and its advantages (when you work at the SNCF or the RATP…the advantages are not overmuch). That’s life !
This social events just confirms the image that France and French people have around the world : never satisfied, lazy and strike champions…

]]> Par : Yannick http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-5 Yannick Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:56:10 +0000 http://kawamurakeito.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/strikes-and-work-a-french-story/#comment-5 You're a bit hard with them... Don't make me say I approve this mess, but still, don't forget that strikes are a political tool for syndicates, which enables them to allegedly "go to negociation with stronger arguments to throw in the bargain", as the like to put it. Honestly, Situation isn't as bad as you depict it : I know it can be frustrating sometimes, but, hey, things are going better, right ? PS : After all, syndicates are just normal people with political conceptions and beliefs about a world that is no longer the way the see it... Perhaps that's why they are so angry : how would you react if you realised all of a sudden that what you hoped for will no longer come anymore, and that things aren't as simple as you thought ? Well, teenage people normally shout some of their choicest swear words to their parents and slam their bedroom's door... It's more or less what syndicate are doing nowadays, don't you think ? They're having a right little tantrum because their illusions are starting to wear out... So, I'm not supporting them, but I'm not condemning them, either : Strikes may be a bit annoying, I've never been a big fan of syndicalism and its methods, all right, but the point is, if nobody messes with Sarkozy and his minions' littles schemes, who will ? You’re a bit hard with them… Don’t make me say I approve this mess, but still, don’t forget that strikes are a political tool for syndicates, which enables them to allegedly “go to negociation with stronger arguments to throw in the bargain”, as the like to put it.

Honestly, Situation isn’t as bad as you depict it : I know it can be frustrating sometimes, but, hey, things are going better, right ?

PS : After all, syndicates are just normal people with political conceptions and beliefs about a world that is no longer the way the see it… Perhaps that’s why they are so angry : how would you react if you realised all of a sudden that what you hoped for will no longer come anymore, and that things aren’t as simple as you thought ? Well, teenage people normally shout some of their choicest swear words to their parents and slam their bedroom’s door… It’s more or less what syndicate are doing nowadays, don’t you think ? They’re having a right little tantrum because their illusions are starting to wear out…

So, I’m not supporting them, but I’m not condemning them, either : Strikes may be a bit annoying, I’ve never been a big fan of syndicalism and its methods, all right, but the point is, if nobody messes with Sarkozy and his minions’ littles schemes, who will ?

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