If only Americans were this motivated....

[Eric5273]

Good for them....

Over one million workers protest across France

PARIS, March 19 (Xinhua) -- More than 1 million people marched against President Nicolas Sarkozy across France on Thursday
in a nationwide strike and protest over what they see as the government's unjust economic policies.

Across the country an estimated 2.6 million people attended around 200 rallies, according to the General Confederation of Labor,
one of the nation's largest unions.

Police, however, put the number of protesters at 1.2 million. Nevertheless, the national strike, the second of its kind in only seven
weeks, was reported as one of the biggest since Sarkozy took office in May 2007.

The protests showed dissatisfaction of French people with social consequences of the global financial crisis.

"The replies from the bosses and the government are not enough," said Francois Chereque, leader of the big CFDT union federation.

"Salaried workers won't any longer accept being the victims of this crisis, which they had nothing to do with," Bernard Thibault,
secretary of the workers' confederation, was quoted as saying by BFM Radio.

The unions jointly called on the government to do more to safeguard jobs and to improve workers' purchasing power.