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Students and workers, one million strong, have taken to the streets and are burning tires at intersections to protest the up-coming proposal of 'labor reforms' in Parliament.
The 'reforms' would allow companies to fire workers under 26 without cause. The Government, according to this report believes that companies will hire more if they can fire more. Jesus, go figure. Evidently, the company needs to give a reason to fire someone. Imagine the burden  The government claims the reforms will reduce unemployment and will allow France to adopt to globalization in the American mode.
What seems to be going on here is the conservative government is preparing to throw the French working class under the bus in exchange for slave labor in Southeast Asia, all part of the neoliberal agenda that led Thatcher to bust the coal miners union and privatize the railroads, and led Reagan to bust the Air Traffic Controllers Union.
The idea that labor protections are the cause of European unemployment is part of an overall myth that Europeans would benefit from a more American-style economy. The U.S. economy is said to be more competitive, yet we are running a record trade deficit of more than 6 percent of GDP, and the European Union is running a trade surplus. The U.S. economy is supposedly more dynamic, but French productivity is actually higher than ours. Their public pensions, free tuition at universities, longer vacations (4-5 weeks as compared with 2 weeks here), state-sponsored day care, and other benefits are said to be unaffordable in a “global economy.” But since these were affordable in years past, there is no economic logic that would make them less so today,
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