3,000 French Gas Stations Out of Fuel

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  1. MolonLabe2009

    MolonLabe2009 Banned

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    This is exactly why we need to get ban ALL unions so that the unions can't hold America hostage.

    It seems that France experiences a strike of some sort almost every week.

    Stop hostage taking! Ban unions!

    3,000 French Gas Stations Out of Fuel
     
  2. Brewskier

    Brewskier Well-Known Member

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    The left in the West wanted worldwide redistribution, they got it. In our globalized world, the West cannot afford to demand high wages and low product costs, as we are being equalized with 3rd world countries. We will need to start living in poverty like the majority of people have in these 3rd world banana republics that we are importing wholesale into our advanced countries.
     
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    Thirty6BelowZero Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The left want us to be the world's babysitters, but not the world's police.
     
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    They can ride their bikes.
     
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    It does not say why they are striking. Are their concerns important?
     
  6. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Be it protests, civil disobedience, or strikes, this is typical of the left, make everyone's life miserable until they get what they want. There are certain industries which should be allowed to strike or even be unionized.
     
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    I dont think we need to ban all unions, just unions against tax payers, like the teachers union, and state and federal employees unions....

    Its idiotic to create a union for the extortion of tax payers.
     
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    How about banning REPUBLICAN unions (Republican Congress) who shut town the country on occasion in order to get "what they want"!

    And who cause billions of heartache and damage!

    Please note that the Republicans continued getting their government health insurance, paychecks and payoffs from lobbyists too!

    As an example to the country and the world, these Republican Congressmen would be impeached the first day they do it!
     
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    gamewell45 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Even if there were no unions, what could you possibly do if all the workers decided en mass to stop working?
     
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    gamewell45 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Making everyone's life miserable??? What are you kidding me, correct me if I'm wrong but these strikers aren't being paid, so they are taking a huge risk and are no doubt miserable as well.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They're miserable by choice.
     
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    I've never been personally affected by a government shut down, have you?
     
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    The French strike every year at this time.

    It's like a hobby...Strike Season.

    If they are working more than 30 hours a week they get irked.

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    Hire new workers. There. Problem solved.
     
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    "The government wants to let companies make us work more than 35 hours a week!"

    It's (*)(*)(*)(*)ing absurd and I'm a leftist who supports unions.
     
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    And yet they chose to withhold their services to their employers and receive no pay.

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    They can already do that under the law if the union workers strike.
     
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    Why? so you cannot be inconvenienced?
     
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    There is no extortion being done, in case you didn't know that, it is against the law. Whoever does the bargaining for the municipality has to voluntarily agree or there is no deal. No one puts a gun to their head contrary to what garbage you might be fed and accept. Nobody should work for the government and starve.
     
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    They shut down the government not the country.

    The nation is better off when they do
     
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    lol, France is being extorted by unions against the tax payers.

    Did you read the op?
     
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    Nothing like far right extremism to demand you may not strike, and must work under the conditions I tell you to.
    Slavery is wrong, mate.
     
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    LMAO, yeah, Republicans were forced to be miserable suffering fools. :)
     
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    They are protesting against a bill the French president made, and signed, while he refused the parliament to have a vote on it. This is typical far right principles of tyranny. The US population would go out of it's mind if any president would do that.
     
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    Do you mean something like 0bama's executive orders?
     
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    indeed.
     

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