The French Are Revolting!

ruggedtoast

Prolly a repost but I cant resist saying it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/13/sony-france-boss-hostage

The chief executive of Sony France is today being held hostage by factory workers angry at their severance packages.
Serge Foucher travelled to the video tape plant at Pontonx-sur-l'Adour, in the Landes region of south-west France, yesterday as a final courtesy visit to more than 300 sacked workers before the factory closes on 17 April. Dozens of staff took him hostage in the factory at 5pm and baracaded the entry to the site with tree trunks last night.
Patrick Hachaguer, a representative from the communist-leaning CGT union confirmed that Foucher had spent the night shut in a meeting room. "He won't listen to us, we didn't find any other solution," the union delegate told Agence France Presse.
As local authorities attempted to negotiate a way out of the hostage situation this morning, Hachaguer described the situation as a "stalemate".
At 8am, around 80 workers were gathered on picket-line and guard duty at the factory. They are protesting that their pay-offs are less than other Sony workers have received in France.
Taking a boss hostage is becoming an increasingly common protest gesture in France. Last year, the English boss of a car-parts factory in eastern France was held for 48 hours in his office, sleeping on a massage table and being provided with blankets and sandwiches. He said he felt like "a prisoner in Alcatraz".
In another incident last year, police stormed an ice-cream factory in Saint-Dizier to free a manager who had been held hostage by workers angry over job cuts. At least 14 staff were injured trying to stop police releasing him.
The mood of French factory workers seeking justice and revenge has spawned France's cult film of the year, Louise-Michel, a gothic comedy in which a group of women laid off from their factory in northern France hire a hitman to kill their boss.

TJ27

They must be Welsh workers from the Sony factory in Bridgend.

It's nothing to do with severance packages. They beat us at rugby.

MrMuttley

Be honest now you dont care about Sonys french CEO. you just watned to start a thread with the title "The French Are Revolting "

steadysaver

The french are revolting

I find if you put a little salt and pepper on them, they dont taste so bad

Generali

TJ27 wrote: »

They must be Welsh workers from the Sony factory in Bridgend.

It's nothing to do with severance packages. They beat us at rugby.

Wales got beaten by the French Sony works rugby team? A dark day for Welsh rugby indeed.

Austin_Allegro

I think if I worked at a 'video tape plant' I might have had a slight inkling that redundancy was coming a few years ago!

What next - workers at a Parisian 78 RPM gramophone record factory are up in arms about plans to let them go....

TJ27

Generali wrote: »

Wales got beaten by the French Sony works rugby team? A dark day for Welsh rugby indeed.

As all Welsh fans will know, as long as we beat the English we don't care.

Generali

TJ27 wrote: »

As all Welsh fans will know, as long as we beat the English we don't care.

Same as all the rugby playing countries with the exception of the All Blacks. They seem to get very upset each time they lose a World Cup. You'd think they'd be used to it by now.

a_rather_tall_man

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

I think if I worked at a 'video tape plant' I might have had a slight inkling that redundancy was coming a few years ago!

What next - workers at a Parisian 78 RPM gramophone record factory are up in arms about plans to let them go....

Yeah my first thoughts on reading it too!

sabretoothtigger

Funny but video tapes are still used in camcorders and can be used with digital information

If I was that Sony Boss I would have taken the yakuza with me