Boss-napping

[rtwinger]

I think you're confused. Their governments don't have backbone. The protesters have plenty. That's why the new employment contract reform failed a few years back.

Hey man, I like your style..
Interested in blogging for my new website (not up yet)?

[Victor Galis]

Hey man, I like your style..
Interested in blogging for my new website (not up yet)?

I'm pretty terrible about even my own these days. Though I suppose I'd consider it.

[SlowwHand]

Blogging. Balls. Here's my life. Is there anyone worse than me that dares to care?

[rtwinger]

I'm pretty terrible about even my own these days. Though I suppose I'd consider it.

All it would require is that you'd post blogs on YOUR blog and a copy on my website, no real extra work required. win win, yes?

[Verto]

The French sense of entitlement is staggering.

[Dinner]

Boo hoo, apparently one of their complaints was that they were - gasp - forced to work 40 hours instead of the original 35. The French people really have no backbone, and are prone to protests. If I was there I'd send in the deathsquad and teach those bastards a lesson, maybe then they won't protest.

You're Venom's AE, aren't you?

[Provost Harrison]

This thread is a clear reminder of why I rarely post on this board. You're all a bunch of idiots sometimes.

Firstly we have to be very careful about the wording in the article. Kidnap was used, a strong word. Reality? He was barricaded in his office. Very, very different.

We are seeing a situation where those who have made the **** ups being rewarded for it, with our money. No amount of the seemingly endless right-wing rhetoric posted into the thread will make it any different. And this is allowed to happen because of a decided lack of balance of forces. Companies use collective bargaining with the control of jobs in large numbers, so unions are a necessary counter to that. All checks and balances. To destroy the unions would cause more problems than you could imagine for the lot of everyday man. Unfortunately some of you rather naively don't seem to realise this from your convenient middle-class positions.

I have to admire the French here for sticking up for their position when every attempt is being made to erode it from the system in which we live.

Now I am not advocating revolution or something here, all I am trying to say is that there needs to be balance. The US has very little unionisation...interesting, is that why you have some of the worst working conditions in the Western world with the longest working hours, shortest holidays and fewer rights and protections. When you repeat those anti-union mantra, think carefully about whose interests you are protecting.

I suspect another torrent of right-wing abuse in response to this post as has been thrown against Che and France in this thread. You've got to admit though, they've got a point, as inconvenient as it may seem to your worldview.

[Asher]

It's nothing to do with right vs left wing.

che called capitalists "dispensable", and you defend him and pretend like it's everyone else who is crazy?

What they're doing, regardless of their world view or my world view, is wrong. Plain and simple. Pretending otherwise is folly.

[Asher]

this DP bull**** is annoying

[DinoDoc]

Firstly we have to be very careful about the wording in the article. Kidnap was used, a strong word. Reality? He was barricaded in his office. Very, very different.

Would you have prefered the phrase "held hostage"? Does that make it more palatable?

[Felch]

So if it wasn't a kidnapping, how about an unlawful arrest? That's still a crime in most places.

Depriving your fellow citizen of their liberty and personal security (in this case, barricading them in an office) is not the behavior of a decent person. Trying to justify it by splitting hairs just makes you look like a jerk.

I'm not opposed to unions that serve a valid purpose. Workers that are mistreated have a right to organize and freely associate with one another. But organizing into a criminal conspiracy, in order to coerce management into giving you money is not a valid purpose. It's racketeering.

[Arrian]

Everyone is very motivated. This is our only bargaining chip. But we are not being violent

Come see the violence inherent in the revolution. Help, help, I'm being held hostage.

I'm quite sympathetic to people who are angry b/c they're losing their jobs whilst executives keep theirs, get bonuses, or at the worst get golden parachutes. My sympathy runs low, however, when stuff like this goes down.

See how it plays out, though.

-Arrian

[DanS]

Firstly we have to be very careful about the wording in the article. Kidnap was used, a strong word. Reality? He was barricaded in his office. Very, very different.

No it isn't.

[KrazyHorse]

Would you have prefered the phrase "held hostage"? Does that make it more palatable?

Forcible confinement, IIRC.

[KrazyHorse]

Hmmm. Interesting. It appears forcible confinement is a Canadian/Commonwealth term.