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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (51465)	10/14/2005 9:07:04 AM
From: magumba	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 206212

France is an example of entrenched power centres, not just for unions. The French government elite is trained at the ENA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration), and as a graduate you are guaranteed a government job for life, even if you are visibly incompetent, as in the case of some bank scandals. So don't just bash unions in France, there are a lot of other things you can bash. Everything is controlled from Paris, down to the smallest details, stretching out to French possessions in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Ex: compulsory national high school exams are standardized, printed in Paris, and held at the same time. One day a high school history final exam in Nice (for 30 students) was disrupted by Corsican nationalists. The law requires that all exams have to be written under similar conditions. So 30,000 students nationwide had to rewrite the exams! If France wants to change, it will have to change more than just unions.