
French postal unions call for strike
Employees of the French post office (La Poste) have been urged to stop work on January 27 in protest against what the French postal unions Sud-PTT and CGT-PTT call the merchandisation of public services. On the job front, moreover, the unions claim that La Poste is no longer recruiting civil-servant status employees. January 27 is the day on which the French senate is due to debate the bill on the regulation of postal services.