Continued French Obstinance

Fire of Liberty

Well it seems that the trade unions in France are so consumed with promoting their agenda that they prefer calling for more protests in the streets rather than sit down and have talks with the government on high unemployment. You'd think that a group that is so concerned about organizing workers, they'd be more willing to support a policy that creates more jobs and competition within the 18-26 year olds who currently face a unemployment rate of 23%. I guess this has a lot to do with a government that creates an enormous "nanny state" that holds the people's hands and allows the labor unions(They pretty much have the run of the country because almost all services like utilities, transportation, fire fighters, and police are still in the public sector and are heavily unionized thus they can shut down the country with a mere drop of the hat.) to have near autonomy within the nation.

The folks in these labor unions can keep up their games if they want to but in the long run their strikes and calls for further protests just show you how unreasonable they have become. This inability to see the reasoning behind this law will just result in the further decline of the unemployment rate amongst the 18-26 year olds thus creating a bigger mess. Here's hoping that the French government demonstrates that they are able to stand up to the unions and pass some law or they'll never get anything done if they come to another impasse like this down the road.