Posted on 04/04/2006 10:33:28 AM PDT by Peach
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Richard Miniter was on FNC and said that even if an employee is caught on videotape stealing from their employers, they cannot be fired.
Yep!
What happened last time, and I think is happening this time, is that the French middle class Gallic youth come out to demonstrate about the new work laws, and the "youth" from countries other than France, ahem, get involved, attack them and steal their cell phones, ect. Thugs preying on fools, in other words. Police take the brunt of it, they probably all are being driven into the arms of Le Pen. And I don't blame them.
PARIS (Reuters) - More than 2.5 million people demonstrated across France on Tuesday to demand the withdrawal of a youth job contract imposed by the government, the Force Ouvriere trades union said.
"We should reach three million as on the 28th of March," a spokesman for the union said. Some 700,000 people demonstrated in the capital Paris, he said, the same figure given by the main CGT union.
Official police figures put the turnout at the March 28 demonstrations at just over one million.
Tuesday's protests were being closely watched for signs they had peaked in the wake of concessions offered by President Jacques Chirac and the ruling conservatives in the past week.
The focus of the protests, the First Job Contract (CPE), gives firms the right to summarily lay off the under-26s any time during a two-year period.
The government says it will encourage firms to hire staff and so reduce high youth unemployment, but unions and students say it undermines job security.
If that's true, we have left the day when television provided a more accurate picture of reality.
LOL -- I would hire only family men, with children to feed.
I'm only going to Paris the end of this month to hook up with a tour to Normandy. My travel agent said it's the best place to get that tour. If it wasn't for that reason, and that reason alone, I'd never go to Paris, and I'll never go back again.
Socialism begins amuck.
Calling these people hooligans is like calling the terrorists freedom fighters.
This doesn't look over to me....Fox said that the peaceful demonstrators have left....the hooligans have taken over...
Question by tv babe: "Who are they? The most disruptive ones?"
Reporter: "They are poor people from the suburbs, similar to the ones who erupted in March."
It must suck to be frog.
French Students Take to Streets Over New Employment Law
A new law aimed at reducing youth unemployment (currently 23 percent) by making it easier to hire and fire young workers has sparked an outcry of opposition from the intended beneficiaries. As many as 1.5 million people participated in street demonstrations to protest the “First Job Contract” law passed by Parliament.
Jacques Esse, one of the students leading the protest, denounced the law. “They are trying to take away our leisure and force us into boring jobs,” said Esse. “We need money, not excessive demands on our time.”
Esse contends that forcing young people into the workforce will have anti-democratic impacts. “Who will march in the streets to protest bad laws if everyone has jobs?” asked Esse.
Esse demanded that the government save his generation from a life of meaningless toil. “Our time and our minds should be free to create the new ideas needed for a new millennium,” said Esse. Esse proposed that corporations and the rich be taxed to provide stipends for young intellectuals like himself.
Asked what new ideas for a new millennium he has, Esse responded that his proposed stipends for young intellectuals was just the first of many he was sure would be forthcoming if he isn’t bogged down by a dead-end job and has the time to work on them.
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http://www.azconservative.org/Column_Archives.htm
Yeah, Che would have helped you girls.
JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press Writer
PARIS - Demonstrators opposed to a new jobs law clashed with police in downtown Paris on Tuesday, throwing stones and debris as they dodged tear gas canisters. Several people were seen being carried away by authorities.
A nationwide strike shut down the Eiffel Tower and snarled air and rail travel for the second time in a week Tuesday while students barricaded themselves in schools to protest a jobs measure that has riven the country and put the government in crisis mode.
Protesters have mounted ever-larger demonstrations for two months against the law, which would make it easier to fire young workers. But President Jacques Chirac signed it anyway Sunday, saying it will help France keep pace with the global economy.
Things are worse over there than we've been led to believe.
When you have lived a life of unemployment, rioting really takes it out of you. After an hour or two of rioting, they all insist on a holiday or a vacation.
It didn't look over to me either. What time is it in France?
France is an easy target to conquer for anyone who can throw a tomato.
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