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Those Wacky Frenchmen

by Mathias at 1:21 pm

Seriously now, France. Hey. Your years of kowtowing to the demands of the most flashy or glamorous have finally reached their logical conclusion. Kidnapping the managers of a profitable company.

Workers at a Caterpillar plant in the French Alps briefly held five of their bosses in a dispute over their severance packages, workers and union officials said Tuesday.

“There is no violence or sequestration, but simply pressure so they restart negotiations,” Pierre Piccarreta, a representative from the C.G.T. union, told The Associated Press. Workers had detained the director of the plant and his associates.

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