Three strikes=y'er out!

Tomorrow on the glorious date of January 29th there will be a nationwide strike. Meaning pretty much nothing in France will be operating. Fortunately Sarkozy signed into law earlier this month that transportation services have to run at least a little bit during a strike, but the city will be slowed to a crawl, probably a 30 minute or hour wait for a metro. But not only are Airfrance, SNCF-national trains, RATP-paris metro, and other transportation people going on strike. Pretty much every union is going on strike- grocery workers included. Why? Because the people of France are upset with how Sarkozy is handling the credit crises. In response the first thing they think of is NATIONWIDE STRIKE! Yeah! Seems like something from a chain mail- everyone don't buy gas on this day so we can show the gas people who's boss! (I'm sure the gas people were "very afraid") but the thing is in France -they are actually serious and they are going to do it! 

Here's an article on it from the UK-so it's in english

I don't even think that this would be possible in the US. I don't think that we could get everyone to participate- a strike doesn't seem like it would cause someone to find the answer to the present problem, maybe people just wanted to get a day off of work. Perhaps it is just the principle of the thing. I'm afraid that it is something I will never understand.