Commuter chaos grips France

[HenryTo]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/03/10/france.strike.ap/index.html

This is simply amazing stuff - if something like this happens over here in the U.S., people would go to jail for it. Looks like countries like France is in a quicker state of decline than I thought.

Quotes:

"Planes, trains and metros were canceled, and postal workers and teachers stayed home in a nationwide day of defiance Thursday against government economic policies -- notably plans to let the French work longer hours.

"Francois Chereque, of the moderate CFDT union, said labor leaders have no intention of budging.

"The CFDT is very attached to the 35-hour workweek," he said. "We will defend it until the end.""