Emmanuel Macron should follow Margaret Thatcher’s lead and break France’s railway unions

Published March 22, 2018 6:12pm ET



As President Emmanuel Macron continues his restructuring of the French economy, the far Left are preparing to paralyze the nation.

Macron’s latest focus is on reforming the national railway system and its ludicrous, archaic work rules and compensation schemes. Railway workers are allowed to retire on gold-plated pension plans, some at the age of 52. If that weren’t bad enough, France’s railway network is massively overstaffed and distinctly wasteful.

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