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By *lem-H-Fandango OP   Man
over a year ago

salisbury

One million people on the streets, yet bugger all coverage. What are they afraid of?

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

It is the French way lol

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By *lem-H-Fandango OP   Man
over a year ago

salisbury


"It is the French way lol"

Lol true, i always find it rather hypocritical when their authorities try and break them up!

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

That’s the French for ya

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Vive la révolution

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By *coptoCouple
over a year ago

Côte d'Azur & Great Yarmouth

"yet bugger all coverage"

In the French media or the UK's? BREXSHIT and BoJo's latest might be screaming headlines and click-bait over here, but doesn't even merit page 10 of a French or German newspaper ("World News", and even then just a small paragraph after coverage of a forest fire in Outer Mongolia and a train crash in New Zealand).

The French don't sit around reading newspapers or tapping away on their computers if they feel aggrieved... they get out on the streets with a couple of petrol bombs!

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By *lem-H-Fandango OP   Man
over a year ago

salisbury


""yet bugger all coverage"

In the French media or the UK's? BREXSHIT and BoJo's latest might be screaming headlines and click-bait over here, but doesn't even merit page 10 of a French or German newspaper ("World News", and even then just a small paragraph after coverage of a forest fire in Outer Mongolia and a train crash in New Zealand).

The French don't sit around reading newspapers or tapping away on their computers if they feel aggrieved... they get out on the streets with a couple of petrol bombs!"

Story Count from:

BBC - 0

CNN - 0

FOX - 0

CBS - 0

MSNBC - 0

WaPo - 0

ABC - 0

Wall St Journal - 0

NPR - 0

PBS - 0

New York Times.1

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I saw a headline on BBC this morning about Macron appealing to workers not to spoil the country's Christmas.

We came home from Gran Canaria two weeks ago. Our plane was 3 hours late because some air traffic controllers were on strike.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

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By *lem-H-Fandango OP   Man
over a year ago

salisbury


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy "

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though.

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By *agan_PairCouple
over a year ago

portchester

It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

Gets my vote

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

Don't worry. We're about to brexit and scrap workers rights.

Anyone caught slacking in the gulags will not be in employment for long.

#brexitbenefits

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though. "

Those are "good" strikers wanting Western Democracy.

The French are "bad" strikers who want things like workers rights...

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote "

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

Could happen. It will be the erosion of rights for the working class. Royal Mail staff tried to call a strike over pay, work schedules and job security but RM took the union to court and won. The elites in action and possibly just the beginning

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though. "

yeah... don't think the hong kong comparison is the one i would be making! you know... that whole "democracy" malarky!!!

unless you are trying to say the french should be more like the chinese in their attitude... in which case

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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Could happen. It will be the erosion of rights for the working class. Royal Mail staff tried to call a strike over pay, work schedules and job security but RM took the union to court and won. The elites in action and possibly just the beginning "

They won the case because the Union vote was flawed in process.

Unless you are calling in to question, the impartiality of the judiciary?

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

That was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Utter Fucking Gobshite Party.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery? "

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

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By *lem-H-Fandango OP   Man
over a year ago

salisbury


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though.

yeah... don't think the hong kong comparison is the one i would be making! you know... that whole "democracy" malarky!!!

unless you are trying to say the french should be more like the chinese in their attitude... in which case "

Amazes me how "they" won't tell you what's happening on you doorstep, but they will let you know what's happening on the other side of the planet.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!"

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement."

More to it than that. Here's some basic info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "
I like it

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement.

More to it than that. Here's some basic info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law"

So the piecemeal EU legislation wasn't a result of collective bargaining?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement.

More to it than that. Here's some basic info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law

So the piecemeal EU legislation wasn't a result of collective bargaining? "

It maybe piecemeal. But it's better than nothing. Which is what we're heading for.

As with all the EU "red tape". They're minimum standards. Nothing to stop the UK from having better laws.

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement.

More to it than that. Here's some basic info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law

So the piecemeal EU legislation wasn't a result of collective bargaining?

It maybe piecemeal. But it's better than nothing. Which is what we're heading for.

As with all the EU "red tape". They're minimum standards. Nothing to stop the UK from having better laws. "

We don't have nothing - yet.

The Unions are still a thing, you know.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Gets my vote

You'd quite literally vote for slavery?

Did you vote to scrap workers rights? Why the sudden concern!

No. The EU does nothing to safeguard worker's rights. Social EU legislation, which supposedly leads to better working conditions, has not saved one job and is riddled with opt-outs for employers to largely ignore any perceived benefits they may bring to workers. But it is making zero-hour contracts and agency-working the norm while undermining collective bargaining and full-time, secure employment.

Workers rights only ever come from collective action by the workers and a strong labour movement.

More to it than that. Here's some basic info.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_labour_law

So the piecemeal EU legislation wasn't a result of collective bargaining?

It maybe piecemeal. But it's better than nothing. Which is what we're heading for.

As with all the EU "red tape". They're minimum standards. Nothing to stop the UK from having better laws.

We don't have nothing - yet.

The Unions are still a thing, you know.

"

You're a confusing chap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"One million people on the streets, yet bugger all coverage. What are they afraid of?"
.

Contagion!.

Besides they've got a neo liberal globalist leader, nothing to see here .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though.

yeah... don't think the hong kong comparison is the one i would be making! you know... that whole "democracy" malarky!!!

unless you are trying to say the french should be more like the chinese in their attitude... in which case

Amazes me how "they" won't tell you what's happening on you doorstep, but they will let you know what's happening on the other side of the planet."

.

Stop taking the news seriously, it won't educate you, although if you learn to see through it you might see there agenda.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think we are so used to the french striking that it’s no longer news worthy

Doesn't stop coverage of Hong Kong though.

yeah... don't think the hong kong comparison is the one i would be making! you know... that whole "democracy" malarky!!!

unless you are trying to say the french should be more like the chinese in their attitude... in which case

Amazes me how "they" won't tell you what's happening on you doorstep, but they will let you know what's happening on the other side of the planet..

Stop taking the news seriously, it won't educate you, although if you learn to see through it you might see there agenda. "

And what agenda is that?

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

Nothing to stop you raising a civil action as it is, if a service is denied to you.

Or to recover the cost of, say, a ticket you could not use on a bus or a train.

Your "contract" is with the service provider, however, not the labour that provides it.

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By *wosmilersCouple
over a year ago

Heathrowish


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them.

Nothing to stop you raising a civil action as it is, if a service is denied to you.

Or to recover the cost of, say, a ticket you could not use on a bus or a train.

Your "contract" is with the service provider, however, not the labour that provides it.

"

You forget that the small print on many French service terms and conditions anticipate this.

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I don't know anything about France. I was responding to someone who thought unions should be liable for any loss of service to consumers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It should be enshrined in law that any member of the public affected by a strike should be able to demand compensation from the union or be able to sue them. "

Wow....this is the most stupid post of the year yet....you can already claim against the service provider under EU rules so its not even a thing....although after Brexit who knows? Try getting money out of Ryanair after we leave....that’ll show you how a free for all works!

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