>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 16:18:06 -0500 >From: 32 HOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Free Time Theft and DIY Work Time Reduction > >NEWS FROM 32 HOURS > >Frustrated by management's failure to implement the 35-hour week in >their workplace, on January 21 dozens of postal workers in the French >city of Besançon marched to the local police station to lodge a >complaint over the "theft of free time." The police commissioner >replied, in all seriousness, that he couldn't help them since there was >nothing in the criminal code about free time theft, and suggested that >the local prefect was the one responsible for such matters. > >190 postal workers then decided to take work time reduction into their >own hands, and started working a 35-hour week unilaterally. There was >one major problem with this do-it-yourself reduction of work time — the >workload hadn't changed. The solution? The workers decided to stop >sorting and delivering all the junk mail. Now there's a postal >disruption that the public is bound to appreciate. > >For the original article in French, see Liberation, January 22-23, 2000: >http://www.liberation.fr/travail/35heures/20000122samy.html > > >Anders Hayden >32 HOURS >244 Gerrard Street East >Toronto ON M5A 2G2 Canada >Tel: 416-925-6522 >Fax: 416-392-6650 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.web.net/32hours >
