Sacked French workers take boss hostage - GoFuckYourself.com

Twistys Tim · 03-25-2009, 07:12 AM

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PITHIVIERS, France (AFP) - Angry French workers are holding the boss of their factory hostage to try to make their US employers improve their redundancy package, police and union officials said on Wednesday.
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The detention came less than two weeks after workers held the boss of Sony France hostage overnight before freeing him after he agreed to reopen talks on their pay-off when the factory closed.

The latest case was in the central town of Pithiviers where employees of the US industrial conglomerate 3M detained their boss late Tuesday to force him to renegotiate pay-offs and compensations for workers moved to other plants.

"This action (hostage-taking) is our only currency. But there is no aggression," union representative Jean-Francois Caparros told AFP. "Talks were held overnight but they led nowhere."

The factory, which produces pharmaceutical products, employs 235 people but 110 of these jobs are to be shed this year due to falling orders and another 40 are to be shifted to another plant.

There have been several cases of executives being held hostage over the past year by French workers outraged at learning that their jobs were being slashed.

Last week angry tyre factory workers burst into a management meeting and pelted their bosses with eggs to protest the closure of their plant.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/09032...jobs_company3m

You have to admit -- they have chutzpah

xx354xx · 03-25-2009, 07:14 AM

that's one way of getting things done.

$5 submissions · 03-25-2009, 07:19 AM

Extortion sucks......

quantum-x · 03-25-2009, 07:39 AM

Small world when Pithiviers is down the road.
This must be the biggest news item there, ever.

cherrylula · 03-25-2009, 07:54 AM

French people get really pissed off.

LiveDose · 03-25-2009, 07:58 AM

Hardcore for sure.

UFGators2007 · 03-25-2009, 08:02 AM

Imagine the smell in that factory! Eww.

Rochard · 03-25-2009, 09:13 AM

I swear the French are worthless....

quantum-x · 03-25-2009, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I swear the French are worthless....

At least they fucking DO something about the situations at hand.
There's lots of things you can say about the french, but they're not bystanders.

Compare to australia, etc: anytime something like this happens, we just roll over, a nother liberty lost.

geedub · 03-25-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by quantum-x

At least they fucking DO something about the situations at hand.
There's lots of things you can say about the french, but they're not bystanders.

Compare to australia, etc: anytime something like this happens, we just roll over, a nother liberty lost.

amen brother. im not aussie, but your gov did buy citizen's firearms off the people with their own money. lol

props to the french, they still have spines.

John-ACWM · 03-25-2009, 10:06 AM

Too bad that's a way of 'solving' things

Mr Pheer · 03-25-2009, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by UFGators2007

Imagine the smell in that factory! Eww.

Cant be as bad as a french submarine.

pornguy · 03-25-2009, 10:21 AM

Either way its a bit on the fucked up side. Sadly when some american company ties they will end up getting someone killed.

JP-pornshooter · 03-25-2009, 10:29 AM

in USA those people would be labeled domestic terrorists and shot at dawn, well perhaps not but atleast imprisoned...

cherrylula · 03-25-2009, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I swear the French are worthless....

even Hayden Panettiere?

quantum-x · 03-25-2009, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by cherrylula

even Hayden Panettiere?

And Eva Green....

The Seduction of Art · 03-25-2009, 10:56 AM

Jade509 · 03-25-2009, 11:01 AM

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!

BradM · 03-25-2009, 11:12 AM

The French don't mess around.

JamesK · 03-25-2009, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by quantum-x

At least they fucking DO something about the situations at hand.
There's lots of things you can say about the french, but they're not bystanders.

Compare to australia, etc: anytime something like this happens, we just roll over, a nother liberty lost.

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Originally Posted by cherrylula

even Hayden Panettiere?

Marcus Aurelius · 03-25-2009, 11:17 AM

I hear that those responsible for the sacking have also been sacked.

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