Keep that up and you’ll never be on American Idol.
Somebody didn’t get the memo about going quietly into that good night:
French workers threaten to blow up factory • The Register
Workers at a bankrupt French car parts factory have decided that the best way to get some redundancy cash is to threaten to blow up the factory.
According to Autocar, the 366 belligerent ex-employees of New Fabris in Chatellerault have seized the premises and are ready and willing to detonate stockpiled gas bottles unless Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroën cough 30k for each worker – to match the amount the two car makers apparently paid to 200 former employees of another defunct supplier.
Renault and PSA accounted for 90 per cent of the factory’s output. There are car parts with an estimated value of €2m still inside, along with a Renault machine worth another €2m. The companies have until 31 July to stump up the cash or face the consequences.
Guy Eyermann, CGT union official and secretary of the company works council, insisted: “The gas bottles are in the factory. Everything has been planned for it to blow up.”
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Last updated on Monday, July 13, 2009
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