French on National Strike, Demanding Higher Wages

Andrew Anglin October 18, 2022

The French are in the streets, demanding more money.

But where is the money supposed to come from???

RT:

A national strike in France on Tuesday has seen trains canceled and schools closed as trade unions demand higher salaries for workers amid soaring inflation and an energy crisis.

According to one of the country’s largest trade unions, CGT, the protesters are calling for “an increase in wages, pensions and social minimum, and the improvement of living and study conditions.”

CGT explained in a statement that today’s industrial action is an extension of the weeks-long refinery strike that has closed gas stations across the country. The trade union accused the management of oil giants – Total and Exxon in particular – of “making huge profits” while ignoring the demands of employees hit by the cost-of-living crisis.

As the protest movement is picking up steam not only in the energy industry but across “both public and private sectors,” the union said that now is the time for “employees, retirees, the unemployed and young people” to join the industrial action.

How are the unemployed supposed to join a strike?

France’s inflation rate currently exceeds 6%, while almost all of the country’s industrial sectors have recorded a drop in activity due to the burgeoning energy crisis, which has been exacerbated by anti-Russia sanctions and the sharp decrease in Russian energy supplies.

The strike, which is supported by several large unions, has led to massive disruptions. SNCF, the national state-owned railway company, issued a warning that traffic would be disrupted “on several lines.”

The Eurostar rail service announced that it had to cancel certain trains between London and Paris due to the work stoppage.

Maritime transport could also be impacted, as several ports and docks announced that they would cease working for several hours on Tuesday.

The strike has forced some schools to close as the first official figures from the Education Ministry show that about 6% of teachers are participating in the action. The number is particularly high at vocational high schools, where the participation rate has reached almost 23%.

Several cities, including Paris, Bordeaux and Rennes, have seen thousands of people take part in various rallies, with more protests planned in the afternoon.

If the government could afford to force businesses to increase wages, they could afford to just not have so much inflation in the first place. The inflation is a function of the fact that the economy is contracting – it’s not the result of some clerical error.

Western governments are draining the population of its wealth. No one is really benefiting from this in terms of numbers. The elite are benefiting in the sense that they want you to be poor, but the wealth of companies and the rich is also contracting.

Peasants probably don’t understand this, but if you do something like say, shut down all your local power plants, then cut off foreign energy, that proportionally affects the rich as much as the peasants. The rich can take the hit, of course, whereas the peasants end up struggling to buy food and gas, but companies can’t just raise everyone’s wages and remain solvent.

Hopefully, the French make some trouble. They are really the only country in the rules-based order where the population might have the fight in them to really make a mess. Right now though, they are allegedly allowing their protests to be hijacked by government-backed global warmers.

There are videos of riots.

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