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To: Elsewhere who wrote (41939)	9/4/2002 11:13:27 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

The 35 hour work week is a trade union myth which mainly applies to public service. In the private economy the capable people are doing a lot of overtime work. 50-70 h/week are not uncommon, some physicians have >100 h/week. At least in France such trade union and communist myths are indeed durable. I know for the sector I worked in, supporting CAD/CAM systems for my company on site at large customers, I didn't work any less than in the US, and many of my coworkers also often worked long hours; particularly when you factored in the reality of travel time, which was very frequently insanely augmented by transportation strikes of all sorts. This was a just a few years back, but the 35 hr work week hasn't changed this materially for those like me. The socialists sold the country a bill of goods with that stupid legislation, it's about the only campaign promise they ever held. Not that the mainstream right was competent, they allowed six solid weeks of transportation strikes right before a Xmas season (not a single metro or bus in Paris region...) before caving in to union demands anyway.