THE SECULAR RATIONALIST NONWORK ETHIC:

Public sector strikes hit Germany (BBC, 2/13/06)

German public sector workers fighting plans to extend their working hours have widened their strike action to cover most of the country.

An estimated 20,000 local and regional authority staff including nurses, cooks and cleaners have joined the largest public sector strike in 14 years.

They are protesting against plans to extend weekly working hours by 90 minutes, from 38.5 to 40 hours a week.

After two hundred years it seems safe to say that aping the French is an unwise course.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 13, 2006 8:13 PM