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What would Americans think of the French strike?
Just found this article on the BBC site.

French Senate passes pension bill
Here is a little analysis of what this means for the 'strike' if you dont' want to read the article

~~~~Analysis~~~~

Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris

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President Sarkozy hopes the pension bill's passage through the Senate marks the beginning of the end of the crisis.
What happens next is that first thing on Monday, a joint committee of Senate and National Assembly members will meet to agree on a common text.
This final version will then be put to a simultaneous vote in both houses of parliament Tuesday or Wednesday.
At that point, the law will have been definitively adopted - and the government's calculation is that much of the steam will immediately be taken out of the protests. After all, why demonstrate against something you can no longer change?
But for the unions and the left, it is still not the end of the story. They say that until the law is actually promulgated - written into the statute books - they can still force it to be dropped.
That process normally takes two or three more weeks. In the meantime - and starting on Thursday - they will be keeping up the pressure.




Still unsure of what is going to happen next week.  I'm not particularly looking forward to it though.

~Nikki