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 airlines 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 Frances 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 ...
“Yikes. Doesn’t give one a lot of confidence in Air France. Their employees seem feral “
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Reminds me of a certain episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer....
Because nothing gets you your job back like disrobing the boss.
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LOL!
Although, I guess that would depend upon the circumstances. ;)
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