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2007-11-21 Europe

Campaign of Sabotage Against French High Speed Trains

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Posted by Grunter 2007-11-21 12:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The TGV is a tremendous source of pride for the French people. Screwing around with a national symbol while at the same time inconveniencing many thousands of commuters and depressing business revenues is going to delete a massive amount of public sympathy for the strikers.

Sarkozy seems to understand how globally non-competetive it is to have some half a million rail workers be able to retire with full pension at age 50.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-21 13:43|| 2007-11-21 13:43|| Front Page Top

Posted by DMFD 2007-11-21 15:44|| 2007-11-21 15:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in the Third Republic the railroad engineers threaten strike. The government simply said it would draft all the engineers into the army, court martial them, and have them shot. No strike. Seemed to be rather effective.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-21 16:51|| 2007-11-21 16:51|| Front Page Top

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