Pave: France: A Place To Go To™ III

Pave France is down. A hack-and-crash trashed its server box. E-Nough! has graciously invited Pave to post here while the voodoo is sorted out.

If you are new to Pave, we began a monthly poster campaign in March promoting French tourism. We couldn't come up with lots of reasons to visit France, but enough to run this series through June. Here is our first promotion. Here, the April promo. Drop us a line at "pavefrance-at-gmail-dot-com" if you can think of a good reason to visit France.

A NATION ON VACATION
Nobody Likes To Work On Vacation

May is the month that France celebrates French labor with parades, speeches, and strikes.

FRANCE TELECOM UNIONS PLAN STRIKE MAY 31
TO PROTEST EARLY RETIREMENT
PARIS May 22, 2007 (Forbes/AFX/Thomson Financial)

These festivities are generously planned and staged by the French unions (syndicats), though they represent less than 10% of French labor. The unions remind the unhappy French during May that labor law is unjust, work a burden impossible to fairly compensate, that the government is criminal and in thrall to Anglo-Saxon liberalism, and everywhere big business and progress conspire to betray France, which is to say, the French wage slave.

FRENCH WORKERS BIGGEST WHINGERS
LONDON May 14, 2007 (AFP)

Visit France, a nation on vacation.

PFFT (What is this?): 19th century attitude 3½ | 20th century unions 4 | 21st century socialist discontent 4½ | Rayonnement français 0