Posted on 07/06/2013 5:25:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Socialism at it’s best.
It’s wrong to be French.
From the article: Fiodor Rilov, the CGT unions lawyer. This may be an American company, with a headquarters in the US but they are operating on French soil and they have to respect our social rules.
That’s all you need on this one...when ‘social rules’ trump economic reality, the inmates are truly in charge of the asylum.
I’m wondering... if the factory does not have the money to pay its workers or debts, what does the French government expect them to do next?
Isn’t there a name for the situation where the government controls private industry?
I have some sympathy for Goodyear, but not a lot.
France can hardly be called a bastion of free enterprise capitalism. Union rules and government regulations have been in place for many many years. The communists have controlled the unions for years. The executives at Goodyear, I am sure, were appraised of the union and government environment before investing in that plant.
The government expects the company to pay the workers. Get the money from anywhere but pay the workers. They prefer a government loan which will default and then the government owns the property.
Who would buy Good Year tires in France, home of Michelin ?
Why complicate things? If they’re going to FORCE the factory to stay open, they might as well nationalize it and be done with it.
Good question!
Are we really that far behind under Obama?
Yes, its called "Obama's Secret Economic Plan"...
This was predicted...in Atlas Shrugged.
They expect Goodyear to pay French workers from the profits made by workers in other countries, chiefly ours. Goodyear should just close the doors, walk away, say goodbye, and let the ridiculous French try to sue them in international court.
This French union is going to find that the US court in Akron does not follow French law, and that US law is clear that businesses cannot be forced to continue business in a place where they lose money.
Now granted, Obama’s illegal NLRB forced Boeing to do just that, to keep a plant open in the blue state they wanted to close, but the courts are far less willing to violate the law.
The solution is really quite elementary, my dear Watson .... simply pass another law requiring all French citizens to purchase these tires.
Soon to be followed by someone advocating that they should impose huge tariffs on imports from Asia.
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