https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Eight French workers who held two bosses captive at a Goodyear tyre factory in northern France have been handed stiff prison sentences, a punishment that has shocked some in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160112/french-workers-jailed-for-goodyear-bossnapping Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:50:49 +0100 french-workers-jailed-for-goodyear-bossnapping A US tyre tycoon on Friday ridiculed French laws and trade unions that he said had prevented him from investing in a stricken factory, saying France should become "communist". https://www.thelocal.fr/20141128/goodyear-mocks-communist-france-in-rejecting-investment Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:05:00 +0100 goodyear-mocks-communist-france-in-rejecting-investment Workers facing lay off and hoping to win themselves a better severance package, became the latest French employees to kidnap their bosses as a bargaining tactic. Workers at a printing factory nabbed the bosses on Tuesday evening, and are holding them 'without violence.' https://www.thelocal.fr/20140129/bossnappers-strike-again-in-france Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:39:00 +0100 bossnappers-strike-again-in-france US tiremaker Goodyear has won a court battle after a US federal judge threw out a lawsuit by French workers fighting to keep their jobs by preventing a plant closure in Amiens. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140117/us-court-dismisses-french-goodyear-closure-lawsuit Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:02:00 +0100 us-court-dismisses-french-goodyear-closure-lawsuit After spending more than 24 hours being held hostage by their angry employees, two executives from a doomed Goodyear tyre plant in northern France were set free on Tuesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140107/workers-release-french-goodyear-execs Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:03:00 +0100 workers-release-french-goodyear-execs French and American cultural differences in the world of work were once again underlined on Tuesday when a controversial American CEO reacted with astonishment to news that two French bosses at a factory he is set to invest in had been taken hostage by workers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140107/goodyear-hostage-crisis-in-the-us-this-is-kidnapping Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:22:00 +0100 goodyear-hostage-crisis-in-the-us-this-is-kidnapping French workers facing job cuts rarely lie down without a fight and are often prepared to resort to extreme measures, which was the case at a doomed Goodyear tyre factory in northern France on Monday, where two bosses were being held captive. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140106/threatened-french-workers-kidnap-factory-bosses Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:37:00 +0100 threatened-french-workers-kidnap-factory-bosses Workers protesting against the planned closure of a loss-making Goodyear factory in northern France on Thursday used a pile of burning tyres to blockade the plant, and had a colourful message for US company Titan, whose takeover bid could save the factory. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131107/angry-goodyear-workers-blockade-tyre-plant Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:02:00 +0100 angry-goodyear-workers-blockade-tyre-plant A US tycoon has reportedly made an offer to invest in a doomed French tyre factory, just months after he ridiculed the workers for being lazy and talking all day. The bid by Titan's Maurice Taylor would save 300 jobs, a French minister claimed. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131021/extremist-us-ceo-offers-to-save-french-factory Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:18:00 +0200 extremist-us-ceo-offers-to-save-french-factory Maurice Taylor, the hard-nosed CEO of American tyremaker Titan, has hit back at comments by a French minister, once again attacking French workers, labelling France’s government "extremist", and calling union bosses "nutcases". https://www.thelocal.fr/20130222/us-ceo-attacks-french-union-nutcases-in-new-letter Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:09:00 +0100 us-ceo-attacks-french-union-nutcases-in-new-letter The head of US tyremaker Titan has mocked French workers at a Goodyear factory for putting in only "three hours" a day and talking and eating too much. French union bosses hit back suggesting the CEO might need psychiatric care. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130220/us-ceo-mocks-french-factory-workers Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:04:00 +0100 us-ceo-mocks-french-factory-workers Executives at a Goodyear tyre plant in Amiens, northern France, presented on Thursday a plan to close the site, which employs 1,173 workers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130131/goodyear-to-close-plant-in-northern-france Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:59:00 +0100 goodyear-to-close-plant-in-northern-france