AIR France workers get shirty; rip shirts from executives after airline cuts 2,900 jobs; striking staff storm board meeting at Charles de Gaulle airport and force executives to flee, with one clambering over fence half-naked!

5/10/2015

Air France’s human resources director, Xavier Broseta, tries to climb a fence to escape angry employees

Pierre Plissonnier, vice-president of Air France at Orly airport in Paris, is helped by police to escape the protesters.

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rajend naidu

6/10/2015 12:44:49 am

Remember the French Revolution? Yes the French masses have a long history of not tolerating tyranny. It is often the case in today's world of the pervasive corporate culture that the corporate executive vultures strut about with their high salaries and lifestyle of bourgeois debauchery whilst the workers live a precarious existence with their low income and threat of redundancy.
It is good to know the French workers decided they were not going to stand for this class exploitation and took the fight to the fancy to the bourgeois class..
I recall a SBS documentary where Calcutta ricks haw wallahs were asked what they would do if the authorities went ahead with plans to ban the ricks haw . They said in rustic Hindi " Hum log toor faar kar dhege". That's what the French workers decided to do.
Now this should get the corporate peacocks to take stock of things pretty smartly.

rajend naidu

6/10/2015 04:36:27 am

Editor,
We read in the article ' Why everybody knows CEOs are overpaid, but nothing happens' by David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University the following " ... Across Europe, the US and Australia , four fifths of people believe business leaders in their countries are overpaid and/ or that executive salaries should be capped.
In Britain, the head of the Institute of Directors said " the current rate of executive pay is unsustainable" ,. several global business leaders have criticised " executive compensation ". Paul Anderson, then retiring chief executive officer ( CEO) of BHP Billiton saw " no way to justify the incredible compensation ".
In an Australian survey the feedback was that " no one was worth that much " ( Yahoo! 7 Finance 6/10 , originally published in The Conversation ).
Given the kind of salary and bonus and compensation and God knows what else the CEOs get , is it any surprised that workers who mostly do all the hard yards are pissed off when they are made redundant ?
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

Chiku

6/10/2015 08:37:36 am

And this is the kind of ELITIST model the designer of the " new Fiji " Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum is monkeying in Fiji with the recruitment of CEOs for the civil service from abroad. It might even be a way of rewarding the regime's friends overseas who bankrolled their election campaign. Can't put anything beyond this political skunks.

Bahuki

20/10/2015 07:45:12 am

That very same thing is probably what AK-47 had in mind about his so-called "New Fiji" as mentioned in a previous comment.

But "felicitations" to those French workers for taking cue from the French revolution in true "viva la france" fashion.

Merci Beaucoup.

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