Siemens managers taken hostage
The head of the factory’s administration and finance department as well as the head of personnel were held overnight by workers who want new discussions on planned redundancies and compensation payments.
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies wants to reduce by half the current 600 jobs at their two plants in the Rhone-Alpes region. The factory at Saint-Chamond is to be totally shut.
So-called boss-napping has become almost commonplace in France. Over the past few months, senior managers at French works for major international groups, such as Sony, Caterpillar and 3M, were held hostage for hours by angry workers.
Often the employees achieved their goal of forcing new negotiations or higher severance pay-outs.
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