French workers have taken to holding company executives hostage to further their wage demands, but a recent event at the New Fabris auto parts plant has taken the hostage scenario a step beyond. The workers have taken the factory hostage, planting bombs, and giving Peugeot and Renault until July 31st to meet their demands for severance pay or they will blow up the plant. At least the teachers unions and the united auto workers don’t hold the schools and factories hostage; they just hold us hostage.
The French they are a funny race
They try to put you in your place
By sneers and shrugs and oft-times little smirks
But when it comes to work place rules
Their union bosses offer duels
To oligarchs who think they own the works
A few days past a shut down plant
Had offered workers just a scant
Amount of euros as their severance pay
The workers took it not too kind
And then they took it in their mind
To bomb the plant and put their plan in play
So now they sit and wait until
The company dips in the till
And count the days as union deadlines loom
They vow if they don’t get their way
The company will have to pray
That when they strike the match it won’t kaboom