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Air France workers rip shirts from executives after airline cuts 2,900 jobs
Guardian UK ^ | 05 October 2015 | Kim Willsher

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: airfrance; france; xavierbroseta
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To: Lorianne; SMGFan

“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....


21 posted on 10/08/2015 5:47:08 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May every person have the chance, every day, to listen to the sound of children, laughing in play.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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. ;)


22 posted on 10/08/2015 5:48:50 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May every person have the chance, every day, to listen to the sound of children, laughing in play.)
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