FRENCH FOOTBALLERS WILL go out on strike for the first time in more than 40 years next month in protest at a government plans to tax top earners 75%, the clubs announced on Thursday.
The first lockdown in the professional French game since 1972 is scheduled for the last weekend of November after a unanimous vote against Socialist President Francois Hollande’s controversial tax initiative.
The president of the French professional clubs union (UCPF), Jean-Pierre Louvel, said: “We are involved in a historic protest and have a real determination to save football by having a weekend without games at the end of November.”
French clubs to strike over 75% tax row
FRENCH FOOTBALLERS WILL go out on strike for the first time in more than 40 years next month in protest at a government plans to tax top earners 75%, the clubs announced on Thursday.
The first lockdown in the professional French game since 1972 is scheduled for the last weekend of November after a unanimous vote against Socialist President Francois Hollande’s controversial tax initiative.
The president of the French professional clubs union (UCPF), Jean-Pierre Louvel, said: “We are involved in a historic protest and have a real determination to save football by having a weekend without games at the end of November.”
- © AFP, 2013
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