CLOSE TO 100 TEACHERS FROM FRENCH ST. MARTIN TOOK TO THE STREETS YESTERDAY TO SUPPORT THE GENERAL STRIKE IN FRANCE. THE TEACHERS BAGAN MARCHING FROM THE SANDY GROUND CULTURAL CENTER TO THE COLLECTIVITY OF ST. MARTIN WHERE THEY WERE WHILE THE GENERAL STRIKE CRIPPLED FRANCE. RECEIVED BY ELECTED OFFICIALS. AFTER THAT THE PROTEST MARCH PROCEEDED TO THE ACADEMY OF GUADELOUPE ON FORT HILL WHERE THEY ALSO EXPRESSED THEIR GREIVANCES TO ROBERT ROMNEY.
Hundreds of thousands of workers have begun a nationwide strike in France. Eight labor unions have called the industrial action to protest against what they say are insufficient measures by the government to tackle the economic crisis. Unions say that with unemployment mounting, French workers should not have to foot the bill for a crisis that has led to expensive government bailouts for banks, carmakers and other sectors. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a 26-billion-euro stimulus package while pledging to press ahead with unpopular reforms to trim the public sector workforce and liberalize the labor market.
Employees demonstrate in Marseille, France, 29 January 2009. French teachers, postal employees, train conductors and other workers from the public and private sectors stayed away from their jobs in a one-day general strike that has disrupted transportation and shut schools across the country. EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO