Working boy

Funny how sometimes your own events meet real life. Following what was written yesterday, I heard this morning on the radio RFI (french program you can follow anywhere in the world) that Europe will be out of cereals soon. Some reasons for that : population is growing (for whatever we think, Europe makes babies and we have a longer life expectancy), drought in Russia and Australia, using of reserves since years. That means Europe will have to open its borders and knowing the French we will hear about it very soon (the farmers will disagree protecting their market). It seems that France is thinking about a new revolution because one of the untouchable constitutional right is being threatened these days : the right to strike (and we are famous for that, tourists coming back from Paris can testify) because the government declared a "minimum service" which says you just can't let the doors closed : schools for example (what do you do with the kids when there are no teachers), trains (how do you go to work if you can't) ... . This is the biggest step ever but after decades of supremacy France discovers that without questioning the right to strike, people seem to be fed up being hostages. I agree in a way because this arm wrestling between civil servants and the government is always at the disadvantage of the same working class who started long ago to rebel themselves and seem now to be (finally) listened.