UNION BUSTED !!

Kudo's to Sarkozy for having the gumption and backbone to break a socialist institution that is against free enterprise and the spirit of personal competition amongst employee's and whenever it decides, can hold an entire country hostage to it's desires.

THE OBJECTIVE STANDARD:

Collapse of Rail, Subway Strike Is a First Success for Sarkozy
By NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 23, 2007

President Sarkozy of France is on the verge of a breakthrough in his ambitious plan to wean his country off the restrictive working practices he believes stand in the way of national prosperity.

Yesterday, the strike of rail and subway workers that has crippled France for nine days was clearly crumbling, as workers began returning to work in large numbers and union branches conceded that support for the dispute is collapsing.

"We think a dynamic of return to work has begun," Julie Vion, a spokeswoman for France's state-owned railroad network, SNCF, said.

Union leaders began to concede defeat yesterday. "We have to face reality. Since yesterday's negotiations, things have changed. The strike is no longer the solution. The strike strategy is no longer winning," a leader of the Sud union representing Paris underground railway workers, Philippe Touzet, said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

The collapse of support for the strike by individual rail workers marks the first success in what Mr. Sarkozy considers the key goal of his presidency, the abandonment of expensive entitlements and special conditions for public sector workers, including generous early retirement and pension benefits for half a million rail workers, which he believes make France uncompetitive.

Managers for SNCF announced yesterday that 42 out of 45 rail union committees have voted to abandon the national strike that has frozen the country's economy, and will return to work without delay.

Union's of course once served their purpose concerning worker's safety and alienable right's that most western government's now assume. Unfortunately in this day and age most Union's and the fat-cat's that run them are too consumed by greed to even care whether or not one stay's employed or if in fact the company even function's to the point they decide to run somewhere abroad to avoid them.