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Saturday, June 07, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:16 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Social Tensions Remain High over retirement and education reform.
Libé: Bush and Blair Accused of Manipulations of the data used to make the case for war in Iraq.
Ouest-France: Strikes: What to Retain from Salaries. With some educators out on strike for weeks now, Ouest-France wants to know, When this is all done, do we have to pay them for striking? Since it's the land of bureaucracy, there are, of course, procedures. If you don't teach, you don't get paid. If you don't teach because you're on strike, 30% is held out but you have to follow strike procedures to get the other 70%. That's for teachers. It's different for other categories, which is why playground aides, for example, are using different strategies. More unusual, it's already being announced that the usual goodwill gesture of waiving the withholding and repaying teachers for lost wages to get negotiations going is not likely to happen this time, further indicating the resolve Chirac and Raffarin (not to mention Fillon) have to get France on a different path. We shall see if they can pull it off.
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