French Strikers still going at it but even more intense, Gian Sexsmith

            French Strikers still going at it but even more intense, Gian Sexsmith

France last week was experiencing its biggest strike yet at three hundred thousand people and was its third strike. This week Frances turnout on its sixth strike was over one million people. They are still striking because of Frances president Sarkozy is trying to raise the government pension reforms. These strikes have affected Frances fuel supplies, public transportation and its education.

Frances fuel economy is being affected because right now there are over 4,000 gas stations with out any fuel. In France there are only 13,000 gas stations and if 4,000 of them have no fuel, that is about 1/3 of Frances gas stations.

Frances public transportation is being hit hard half of Paris’s Orly airport were cancelled because of a walk out by air traffic controllers. Frances train services were very over crowded because only half of the services were running.

The education system was affected with 379 secondary schools were being blockaded with people or had some sort of disruption. In some areas schools were rioting throwing stones at police officers, which they responded back with tear gas.

Overall Sarkozy is going to have to do something to take control back of his country. His popularity has been decreasing since 2007 as shown in the graph. As said from BBC, “One poll for BVA conducted on 15 and 16 October suggested his approval rating was down to 30%, the lowest for three years.” Otherwise France is going to be suffering for a while.