To make more, work more - Workers World: According to public opinion polls, 66 percent of the French people supported the aims of the strike, even if the effects inconvenienced their life to some degree. They told the pollsters that they felt the strikers and demonstrators were protecting their interests— by defending French workers’ rights to retirement at age 62, a 35-hour work week, six-weeks paid vacation a year and affordable medical care. A sign near the lead banner in Mar seilles summed up the unions’ demands: “Less work, more pay.” This demand is in direct contradiction to the proposal of French President Jacques Chirac: “To make more, work more.”