Euronews: Which countries have the most strikes in Europe and what is the impact on the economy?
A nationwide strike is taking place in France on Thursday in response to plans by President Emmanuel Macron’s government to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age. Strikes may continue beyond January 19 as France’s largest trade union has described Thursday as only a starting point.
Strikes have been happening in the UK, too. Nurses went on strike in England in December 2022 for the first time in 106 years. Rail workers have been on strike in recent weeks, and teachers and health workers are planning to strike in February. Strikes are a significant part of the culture of working life in Europe. People in several EU member states including Spain and Germany went on strike recently, primarily asking for better pay and working conditions.
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WNU Editor: And you just know that Europe is going to be facing even more strikes in the future.
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A VP for a very well-known giant corporation told me that his job was to visit plants where it was in the process of having a union. His job was to prevent that. Our task, he said, was to make sure whatever was grievance we fixed so there would be no interest in a union
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