French Trade Unions Oppose Government's Pay Plans

The Week Vol. 1, No. 22, 28 May 1964 · p. 12 of the scan · 80 words

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The Financial Times of May 22nd reported: "The French Government's week= old proposals for giving slightly more flexibility to its wage policy in the public sector, but without allowing any rapid or immediate increase in this! year's wages, are totally opposed by the railway, electricity and gas trade unionse¢.eeethe railway unions flatly rejected the Government proposals to postpone any discussion of wage rates until the autumn, and demanded an immediate increase...."' Electricity and Gas workers unions have done the same,