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In Belgium where I live, 10% of prison wardens and 50% of the public transportation sector go on strike at least thrice every year. Here at least it's not a big
by norswap 14y ago
In Belgium where I live, 10% of prison wardens and 50% of the public transportation sector go on strike at least thrice every year. Here at least it's not a big deal. Sad country, I know.
I agree it's probably more significant in China, where they are not used to this kind of behaviour.
- africandawg 14y agoThat is very bad. I was always curious how life is in Europe (being the first world) but didn't think that's how the state of affairs would be. Is it because of unions?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoIt's not "Europe", it's parts of it. France is particularly bad I hear, supposedly paralysed by unions. In the UK things are much better because unions lost a lot of their power in the 80s under Thatcher.
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- moe 14y agoUnions are not universally bad. As with all things it's a matter of dosage. Germany has pretty strong unions, too...
- barrkel 14y agoFWIW, France has a lower proportion of unionized workforce than the US, and a lot lower than the UK in the public sector. It's more about cultural differences than any single thing like unions.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoOh, I didn't know that. I've just heard bad things about it. Although I might be confusing this with the government business laws in France, which are also a bit messy. There's a reason lots of French companies have exactly 49 employees.
- barrkel 14y agoI found it amusing that, when in college, the only people who objected to the on-campus bar's pool table usage scheme - "winner stays, loser pays" - in the whole four years I was there, were French :)
- sjwright 14y agoIt's also because of unions that far few people are losing their life at the workplace. Seems like a reasonable trade-off to me.