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La CGT d’Air France a lancé un appel à la grève à partir du 26 octobre, à la veille des vacances de la Toussaint. Le syndicat veut dénoncer le plan de restructuration Transform 2015 signé par plusieurs organisations syndicales début juillet.
CFDT, CGT, UNSA et Sud appellent à une journée de grève pour protester contre la politique salariale de la direction et la précarisation de l’emploi.
Rail and Air travel will be disrupted in France on 25 and 26 Oct, just in time for All Saints (Toussaint).
Air France staff, numbering some 50,000 world wide, are striking over the restructuring of the airline, which is badly needed and SNCF staff are striking over working conditionions and the difficulty in knowing their future prospects.
Comme d’habitude les Francais salaries publique, que AF penser qu’il encore are afraid to lose their jobs and rights although the company is on it’s knees. Restucturing at the top in the last year saw Goegouin lose his job and De Juniac replace him.The former PDG (CEO) had brought in plans to attack low cost airlines operation in the regions. However the staff in Regional (A partner French airline) did not agree and they striked because they were asked to work longer hours. Goeguin reverted to AF mainline to operate the extra routes but their operating costs are so high that it backfired and huge losses mounted (700 m€ in 2011) . De Juniac (Former econaomic advisor to Christine Legarde) was brought in to rationalise the airline. The AF pilots went on strike for four days last spring in protest. Hundreds of aircraft were grounded. What a shame to see all those aircraft parked up in CDG while the spoit brats of air crew stayed in bed and brought the company to the brink o0n losses. C’est la vie mais moi je n’accepté pas.
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer.
The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013.
Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI.
Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug
2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website.
But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien.
The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50.
Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea.
Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
