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Re:4,000 Foxconn workers on strike over iPhone 5 quality con... by barrkel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @10:08AM (#4623344)
FWIW, France has a lower proportion of unionized workforce than the US, and a lot lower than the UK in the public sector. It's more about cultural differences than any single thing like unions.
Re:4,000 Foxconn workers on strike over iPhone 5 quality con... by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @10:11AM (#4623350)
Oh, I didn't know that. I've just heard bad things about it.

Although I might be confusing this with the government business laws in France, which are also a bit messy. There's a reason lots of French companies have exactly 49 employees.

Re:4,000 Foxconn workers on strike over iPhone 5 quality con... by barrkel on Sunday October 07, 2012 @06:30PM (#4624651)
I found it amusing that, when in college, the only people who objected to the on-campus bar's pool table usage scheme - "winner stays, loser pays" - in the whole four years I was there, were French :)