From the article: Fiodor Rilov, the CGT union’s 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?