Socialism at it’s best.
It’s wrong to be French.
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.
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.
Are we really that far behind under Obama?
This was predicted...in Atlas Shrugged.
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.
Goodyear should:
Pay for the homes the plant officials MIGHT own there in France. May not be as much as the constant & continuing losses.
Pick a holiday weekend and bring each & every AMERICAN there home for good, in a massive personnel movement. Make sure ahead of time that every passport involved is current. Charter the planes both for the personnel & their families & also plances for the cargo of their household belongings. (Kalitta Cargo delivers goods to the Afghanistan military deployed Americans—bet they would be happy to bring back such cargo if they don’t have full planes.) DO NOT make reservations on commercial airlines, where a leak of such information can occur. The crating of cargo can happen very quickly when there are enough workers involved.
Electronically close all company accounts over that same holiday weekend.
Pay off all local vendors in full. Walk away from the buildings & equipment.
Let the unions try to re-open the plant.
This is Atlas Shrugged in action!!!!