MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Alissa J. Rubin & Elian Peltier @ NYTimes.com, March 22
PARIS — Travel was upended, schools were closed and tens of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Thursday as railway workers, teachers, students and air traffic controllers went on strike to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s economic and social policies.
The protests are a new challenge for Mr. Macron’s government as it gears up to overhaul France’s rail system and promises changes to unemployment benefits and the pension system. Railway workers are already planning rolling strikes in April and May [....]
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Was in France in 2014, about 10 days. SNCF nationwide rail strike, Paris airport workers strike, Calais ferry workers strike, and cab strike in Nice over Uber, which had no operations in Nice. Nice cab strike included piles of burning tires on Avenue d'Anglais in front of the major hotels.
Had to rent a car and drive Nice to Lyon. Impossible to get refunds for canceled train tickets. Interestingly, any SNCF train bound for Germany was never canceled, even if Germany was the last of half a dozen stops.
by NCD on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 11:50pm