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Re: AF stewardess plunges to death, Orly workers strike
Turning a great little joke into a babbling of misdirected anger and malaise . . .
Love,
A Yank
"Freda" <freda2340@hotmall.com> wrote in message news:42197e11$1_1@news.chariot.net.au...
> Whilst not French or living in France,
> You Yanks give me the shits .
> I doubt if you would know what industrial disputation goes on in your own
> country but you criticise a whole nation after reading something about a
> dispute in theirs.
> Get a good information source as you certainly lack knowledge of anything,
> let alone outside the contintental USA like most of the ordinary Yanks.
> Freda
> "Manny" <manny@emmanuel.nxt> wrote in message
> news:vnni11tnst1u4lfs1rr30rpu2qdjfbi6mv@4ax.com...
>>
>> I've said it before, I'll say it again. President Bush went to war
>> with the wrong country. He should've bombed France instead.
>>
>> What a sad pathetic little country, full of losers.
>>
>>
>> P L B <stuckon@thejet.way> wrote:
>>
>> >Never a shortage of reasons to strike in France....
>> >
>> >French airport workers resume strike, flight headaches continue
>> >Sun Feb 20
>> >
>> >PARIS (AFP) - Air France ground staff at Paris's Orly airport voted to
>> >resume their strike over the suspension of a worker after the
>> >accidental death of a flight attendant, which could mean further
>> >travel delays.
>> >
>> >The French flag carrier said it would be able to operate 70 percent of
>> >its scheduled Monday flights from Orly, located south of Paris,
>> >despite the work stoppage.
>> >
>> >Of about 140 flights scheduled for Sunday, Air France said between 70
>> >and 75 would leave as planned, with domestic flights the hardest-hit.
>> >Long-haul flights to north Africa and the Caribbean were given
>> >priority for departure.
>> >
>> >Air France's ground staff went on strike Friday to protest the
>> >suspension of a tarmac worker after a flight attendant fell
>> >accidentally to her death from the top of a mobile stairway on
>> >February 1 as passengers were disembarking.
>> >
>> >Hundreds of passengers were left stranded by the weekend work stoppage
>> >at Orly, which coincided with the start of winter vacations for
>> >Parisian schoolchildren.
>> >
>> >Unions have demanded that the tarmac worker be reinstated and that a
>> >March 3 hearing about his possible firing for gross misconduct be
>> >cancelled.
>> >
>> >But Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta said Saturday he could not
>> >stop the disciplinary action.
>> >
>> >Airport police were continuing to investigate the circumstances of the
>> >accident.
>> >
>> >Air France workers were to meet early Monday to decide whether to stay
>> >on the job.
>>
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