This Fight is About Your Government Pensions

If the French cut pensions to government workers, you can bet your's will be next on the block.
New York Times

President Nicolas Sarkozy urged transit workers to end their weeklong strike over pension benefits on Tuesday as civil service employees, including primary school teachers, firefighters, newspaper printers and weather service employees walked out in a separate dispute over job cuts.


After a week of avoiding commenting on the train strike, Mr. Sarkozy said in a speech to a group of French mayors that an overhaul was long overdue for early retirement privileges for public sector employees, including the transit workers.


“We will not surrender, and we will not retreat,” he said. “France needs reforms to meet the challenges imposed on it by the world.”