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Posted on 10/07/2015 12:02:52 PM PDT by Lorianne
Striking staff at Air France have taken demonstrating their anger with direct action to a shocking new level. Approximately 100 workers forced their way into a meeting of the airline’s senior management and ripped the shirts from the backs of the executives.
The airline filed a criminal complaint after the employees stormed its headquarters, near Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, in what was condemned as a “scandalous” outbreak of violence.
Photographs showed one ashen-faced director being led through a baying crowd, his clothes torn to shreds. In another picture, the deputy head of human resources, Xavier Broseta, left bare-chested after workers ripped off his shirt and jacket, is photographed being pushed to safety over a fence.
Tensions between management and workers at France’s loss-making flagship carrier had been building over the weekend in the runup to a meeting aimed at finalising a controversial “restructuring plan” involving 2,900 redundancies between now and 2017. The proposed job losses involve 1,700 ground staff, 900 cabin crew and 300 pilots.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Welcome to Bernie Sanders’ America.
Because nothing gets you your job back like disrobing the boss.
As depression continues in the developed world, a lot of people will become feral. That doesn’t excuse it, but it will happen. France especially is simmering. They might be the first to boil over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqybsUqkOWs
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Make that 3000 workers fired.
“Welcome to Bernie Sanders’ America.”
Yes. It would not take much at this point. People dismiss the man at their peril. More importantly, they dismiss the man’s appeal - especially to young people who feel defrauded - at their own peril. This is one of the reasons I hope that Trump prevails. I believe he can present a virile and positive vision prosperity and enterprise. The grubby politicians certainly cannot and would not if they could.
This is worse publicity than that Concorde flight which killed a planeload of German tourists and led to the SST being mothballed. That incident did produce a joke that the Concorde killed more Germans than entire French army did in the 1940 Battle for France.
No problem, plenty of recent “immigrants” to europe to fill those jobs at a much lower labor rate. Maybe the natives should have agreed to work for less.
Rumor was that they were asked to train their H1-B replacements.
No wait, that’s a US only nightmare, caused by bad management.
I’ve flown Air France several times, and always had a good experience.
Don’t think I’d fly with them now, though!!
This is just the next logical step in the Socialist Welfare State’s entitlement culture. If you lose your job, threaten and beat up management. Mob rule.
Wise words.
French Revolutionaries have been doing this kind of stupid thing ever since the days of Robespierre.
We used to call them “Air Chance!” 100 idiots, fired up by union bosses, should go to jail for their attack. It is assault.
Agreed!
And I think the way things are going , we’re gonna be seeing more of this.
Cool video. I’m thinking of showing it to my sons...
The video is a couple of years old, but the movement is ongoing, and indeed international now, although it is nationalistic. It is set in opposition against the transnational cancer that most Western governments have embraced.
And those execs won't just lose their shirts, with the new muzzie hires. Yikes! Airline cuts jobs, workers cut heads...
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