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French Workers Take Caterpillar Bosses Hostage
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by Jordan Yerman | March 31, 2009 at 06:47 am
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As construction giant Caterpillar announces 700 more layoffs at its Grenoble factory, French workers held office bosses hostage.
This is the third time that this has happened this month. Previous incidents occurred at 3M and Sony. In both other cases, management was released unharmed.
It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations. Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
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at 05:28 on August 28th, 2009
Thanks for putting some French news on here.