Posted on 10/25/2010 12:43:14 PM PDT by EBH
Nearly 10,000 tons of rubbish has piled up in the streets of Marseilles as French strikes and blockades continued.
All of the country's 12 oil refineries remained closed today ...which is costing the country up to £350 million a day.
During the disruption French President Nicolas Sarkozy's opinion poll ratings have collapsed and he is now the least popular leader in the history of the Fifth Republic.
Demonstrators restored their blockade at France's biggest refinery of Fos-sur-Mer, Marseilles, following last week’s clearing of their demonstration by CRS riot police.
'The refinery is back in our hands - the police are standing off,' said a local trade union spokesman.
Nicolas Sarkozy scored a victory on Friday by getting his bill to make people work two more years for their pensions through the Senate...
Sarkozy sent in police last week to break up blockades at fuel depots and the government battled to get diesel and petrol out to motorway service stations before a flood of families hit the road this weekend.
Two-thirds of French people oppose the pension law and have put up some of the fiercest resistance in Europe to austerity measures aimed at reining in huge deficits.
"We aren't going to work on the docks until 65. It's just not possible," said Frederic Chabert, 47, at Fos-sur-Mer, a Marseille area port.
Workers at a large Paris waste incineration plant, in their fifth day of a strike, were catching up with colleagues who have let trash pile up in Marseille, the nation's second-largest city.
"If we manage to get to a point where unfortunately Paris becomes like Marseille, covered in garbage, I think then the situation could change because Paris is France's showcase," said Olivier Nave, a 39-year-old garbage collector.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They are still at it!
A taste of the dark ages might do them some good.
Well, since the law was changed to raise it to 62, you're right...
Can't let those pesky facts get in the way now, can we?
Oh Yeah, all that rotting fish.
French garbagemen are revolting.
Wait until Obama goes there to run for President after he is done here...
Look at all that cardboard. That’s not very green of the Frogs... /sarc
All it takes is some idiot with a match and then ...
How can anyone tell the difference?
Yes, they are...
You mean some angry yutes?
They could burn it and the problem would mostly go away.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call Jerry Lewis you Frog Freaks!
Students are preparing a mass demonstration on Tuesday against a new bill which will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.
There will be a general strike against the measure on Thursday too, with the police bracing themselves for another week of violence which has already seen tear gas and truncheons used against demonstrators.
This will be what the United States will look like if we have a few more liberal administrations.
Great pic!
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