Business ethics: The moral and ethical aspect of the French strikes

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The American newspaper International Herald Tribune (Edition from Saturday and Sunday 17-18 November) decided to do its front page about the strike in France. That shows the importance of the strike and its paralyzed effects on the economy and on the well-being of the users. But that demonstrate as well a phenomenon of misunderstood for others countries. How cannot the national transportation work?
But this misunderstood comes from a cultural difference. In France, when employees are doing a strike they are protected, they cannot be fired. It is recognized as a right. The impact of the history on our society is strong and this heritage helps to understand the situation during a strike. The French Revolution from 1789 put in place a lot of rights in the goal of protection of people against "Bourgeoisie" and "Aristocrats". So people were able to show their dissension against the Power in place.

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[...] But the interpretation of this kind of extreme situation is very personal and comes from the moral compass of each one. The moral compass is the result of a system values and the education. In others terms, it is the morality of one person to think and to react in a specific situation. Values have different degrees, the first one is for individual needs or individual behaviour, and it is when the person has relatively modest goals in his life. This person is a decent, honorable person and he/she is trying to do the right thing. [...]

[...] This situation demonstrates the effect of a non-ethical way of business. Because, the loaner are in trouble. Moreover, this situation is playing against the market and will fragile the housing market. The risk to adopt an unethical and immoral behavior sometimes has nothing to do with pragmatism and doing profits but more doing damage on life and economy as well. In the French strike situation, the same problem appear because the behaviors of each part are inspired on indivualism so each one is not looking for negotiation but looking for the better strategies to have right The state situation: a reason to reform The debt: Government debt is money owed by any level of government; either central government, federal government, municipal government or local government. [...]

[...] In a sense, it is a search for an ideal litmus test of proper behavior. Moral: Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. [...]

[...] This exercise is like doing introspection to us and it is not the easiest thing to do. The moral vision is the spiritual and affective aspect of moral identity. The core values are truth, justice, freedom, friendship, and world peace. So in this situation these values are linked to leadership because they are higher as personal needs. The moral vision is the willing to influence society and people and in the same time try to change it in a better way. [...]

[...] In the strike situation, the transportation users represent the first system of values, they have a need, they want to do the rights things in the right moment and it is really honorable. They represent a calm situation or a “status quo”situation, adapt themselves to a define situation. In a Leadership class, we will call them the “followers”. They accept the rules. In the others side, the railway unions belongs to the second system of values and represent the non-acceptation of a new system. [...]