French unionist here, and the CGT Barbecue is like a national food here
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They also have mobile bars (basicaly a food truck, except you can buy food or drink as it moves along the protest).
Source : I'm French, and protested. It's kinda like those who run to keep in shape. We protest instead.
Dang, I wonder if the true winner here is the food truck owner...
Depend if you count getting regularly tear gased as a win 😂.
OMG they really do.
I remember when I lived in Germany, French Truckers had a protest where they parked hundreds of trucks on highways and basically shut down the highways in France.
You know how the French people reacted?
They brought the truckers food and water so they would not go hungry.
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
In america you block a road and your likely to get murdered
…by a fellow worker who will not be prosecuted because “they were just defending themselves”
Can’t be late to work. Will get fired and replaced by ai. Which means no healthcare, no house, no food.
That’ll happen either way, if we let the people who would have stood in solidarity with us protest alone and be fired themselves. I’m not telling you what to do, but you’re not protecting yourself
True, a job means healthcare and a house. Right?
If the wannabe oligarchs get their way, that'll happen anyway....
The solidarity of the French is no bullshit!
Fraternité motherfuckers!
I admire the French, even envy them a bit. I wouldn't mind having been born French.
But, since I wasn't I don't want anything to do with them.
Since you weren't neither do they.
Ouch, right in my croissant shaped heart.
But that’s true… Merde, that’s true.
Everyone should spend time working in France. Yes I realize how insanely privileged that statement is. But something about working amongst a people where the janitor doesn't even pretend to take shit from the CEO and leaves a conversation in the middle because it's break time, is inspiring.
At least see first hand how they work. I work for myself so I try to imitate their style. I don't need to go on strike but I'll drop a client if they're being stupid.
Had this happen to me in Berlin. Customer rep just looked at her watch and left. Granted, it was at an airport very late in the evening, so circumstances were unusually shit, but still. I was amazed.
I'm taking notes
I have a feeling that there's like one or two of these. It's very often the case when reading a post saying how "X of country Y do this".
I've read some wildly misleading shit about Finland that was like this lol
Iirc, it’s the train conductors’ union, which makes sense. If they’re not involved, I wouldn’t trust using the tracks.
If there was another French Revolution, you know that they’d have guillotines on tram tracks
Everyone praises French protesting but the French are literally still like the top 5 of imperialist countries in the world and more often than not their protests don't change much externally.
Just food for thought when everyone considers dumping everything into protesting.
They at least protest and cam vhamge things internally, heck they don't change those imperialist things because they just don't protest about it
Just food for thought when everyone considers dumping everything into protesting.
Aaand this comment ends with anti-protests(-ism), which is very sad
It doesn't as much as people believe. France still raised their retirement and pension ages even after mass protests. Call it anti protestism or whatever but here in America it's not doing what people believe it does. Most protests here are pats on their back and aren't doing enough.
It's not anti protestism whatever to point out the ineffectiveness of it. That's just called the truth.
It’s just new. The Macron government don’t give a flying fuck about protests and does what it want.
But prior to his presidency it was working.