Friday, October 22, 2010

France issues emergency decree ordering strikers back to work at refinery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8079680/France-issues-emergency-decree-ordering-strikers-back-to-work-at-refinery.html

Here comes the Cross Roads.
One Union says follow the order, the other says no.
It takes courage to take a stand and if they don't paralyze the country, they hold no leverage.
And leverage is everything, ask the investment banks, because theirs has slipped.
The American People can and should paralyze them.
A fire can't burn if it's fed no oxygen.


Riot police took control of the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refinery, clearing pickets and a barricade of burning tyres, shortly after union leaders told reporters they had been served with the legal notice.

This order, known in France as a "requisition", can be issued by French authorities when they believe a strike poses a threat to public order. It compels strikers to return to work, under threat of prosecution.