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Workers at a car component factory in central France have occupied the plant and are threatening to blow it up in a radical protest against their bosses as the site risks closure.
The workers at the GM&S auto-suppliers plant in the Creuse region, north of Limoges, have told Renault and Peugeot they are ready to blow up the factory if their demands are not met.

Some 280 jobs at the site are under threat after the plant went into receivership back in December, and workers accuse the two car giants of blocking negotiations for a takeover of the factory and of making too few orders.

The protesters have already started destroying machinery at the site. Photos released on social media on Thursday, show them cutting a machine in half with a blowtorch. Trade union representatives say the workers will destroy a machine each day unless their demands are met.
https://www.rt.com/news/388032-french-w ... w-factory/


This should happen more, everywhere. :D
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This would be virtually inconceivable here in the US, where simply arguing in favor of worker's rights provokes extreme reactions out of a lot of people and accusations of "communism," whereas firing mass numbers of people to maintain executive bonuses, lowering safety standards to save on costs, and pressuring people to work longer hours without overtime pay, among others, is acceptable. France (and Greece, interestingly) is among the few Western nations where protests and demonstrations are pretty bold and are taken more seriously (although not necessarily leading to any kind of change).
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skinster wrote:The protesters have already started destroying machinery at the site. Photos released on social media on Thursday, show them cutting a machine in half with a blowtorch. Trade union representatives say the workers will destroy a machine each day unless their demands are met.

This should happen more, everywhere. :D

History repeats itself it seems, somewhere in France at least. How do they mean to work without machinery by the way? :?:
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skinster wrote:Workers at a car component factory in central France have occupied the plant and are threatening to blow it up in a radical protest against their bosses as the site risks closure.
The workers at the GM&S auto-suppliers plant in the Creuse region, north of Limoges, have told Renault and Peugeot they are ready to blow up the factory if their demands are not met.

Some 280 jobs at the site are under threat after the plant went into receivership back in December, and workers accuse the two car giants of blocking negotiations for a takeover of the factory and of making too few orders.

The protesters have already started destroying machinery at the site. Photos released on social media on Thursday, show them cutting a machine in half with a blowtorch. Trade union representatives say the workers will destroy a machine each day unless their demands are met.
https://www.rt.com/news/388032-french-w ... w-factory/


This should happen more, everywhere. :D


:D

Housekeeper: You've ruined that piano!
Clouseau: What is the price of one piano, compared to the terrible crime that has been committed here
Housekeeper: But that's a priceless Steinway!
Clouseau: Nyot Anymeur.
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Well, that's certainly one way to go about it.

Do try to keep responses to more than one line posts though please. Showing general support or opposition is all well and good but literally any of us can guess what side every pofoer is going to fall on anyway so It's not really informative.

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