Union Activists Tear Clothes off Air France Execs Over Layoffs
A violent and angry mob.
It looks like the United States isn’t the only country with unhinged union activists. After job cuts were recently announced at Air France, angry union activists actually ripped the clothes off the bodies of airline executives.
The Associated Press reports via NBC News:
Air France Execs Lose Shirts as Union Activists Attack
Union activists protesting nearly 3,000 proposed layoffs at Air France stormed the headquarters during a meeting Monday, zeroing in on two managers who had their shirts torn from their bodies, scaled a fence and fled under police protection.
An Associated Press photographer saw about a hundred activists rush the building after breaking through a gate. Shortly afterward two high-level managers fled, one bare-chested and the other with his shirt and suit jacket shredded.
Road access to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was briefly disrupted, and some flights suffered delays. Although Monday’s scuffle was unusually violent, labor relations in France are commonly testy, with unions sometimes even resorting to holding managers hostage — or “boss-napping” — to make a point.
Air France denounced the violence and said it will push ahead anyway with its restructuring plans, after failing to reach an agreement with pilots.
Here’s a video report from CNN:
French President François Hollande is not pleased.
Sofia Melo reports at Politico:
Air France violence ‘hurts country’s reputation’
Footage of two Air France bosses with their shirts ripped off fleeing from an angry mob has damaged France’s image, President François Hollande said Tuesday.
The two executives were attacked as they tried to escape from workers who had stormed a management meeting in protest at job cuts announced on Monday.
“Social dialogue counts,” Hollande told journalists during a trip to a naval college in Le Havre. “When it is disrupted by violence, by protests which take unacceptable forms, we see that it can have consequence on the image, on the attractiveness” of France.
These men were forced to climb a fence in tattered clothes to escape the mob:
A history of French employment protests, after mob tears clothes off Air France executives http://t.co/Ev2eg4wDsy pic.twitter.com/tvJy4NewDI
— Bloomberg Business (@business) October 6, 2015
Two Air France executives had to flee a meeting after revealing plans to cut about 2,900 jobs http://t.co/x6s93crtRD pic.twitter.com/0mFPoWz4RN
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) October 6, 2015
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Lock, stock, and barrel: now I understand the image of the guy walking around naked with only a barrel around him – socialism had stripped him bare.
The “Lock, stock, and barrel” phrase references a rifle.
For socialism to take its full totalitarian “effect” it must take away your rights, including the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Unions gonna union; thugs gonna thug.
A French airline exec being attacked by a mob has two options: beg for mercy or run for his life.
An American airline exec being attacked by a mob has more than two options: .40, .45, .38, 9mm…
.45 ACP Because shooting twice is just silly.
Hah! A friend and I scored a truckload of semi-rotting watermelons and cantaloupes this past weekend. We took them out to our homemade range on his farm and blasted away – I was using .45 ACPs through a Colt 1911. We’re in NC, but pieces of those watermelons will be found in the next county.
So, when will the French strip the anti-native activists of their clothes and dignity?
First they came for… and the Unions were safe and did not protest.
Too bad the French couldn’t fight like that during war. But maybe they needed the shirts for white surrender flags.
They’re gonna party like it’s 1789!
A once civilized nation.
Qu’ils mangent du gâteau.
Expense those suits… just save the receipts.
Eventually one of these execs, foreign or otherwise, is going to get snatched up and tortured, then killed – and no one is going to shed a tear.
What can’t be sustained won’t survive. This includes businesses that are being choked by labor regulations and costs.
Silly execs, don’t they understand that in a Socialist society, business exists solely to provide jobs for Socialist workers?