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PARIS (AP) - Paris restaurant cashier Micheline Lalande casts a knowing glance and chuckles about New Yorkers' complaints over a three-day transit strike that ended Friday.
"A subway and bus strike in New York — that's a laugh," said the 55-year-old as she readied for the lunch-hour rush at her eatery near the Champs-Elysees. "Compared to us, they have nothing to complain about."
In labor-friendly countries in Europe, strikes by transportation workers have long been a fact of life — often seen as a cherished right even by the suffering commuters.
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