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And put them in jail for decades, but, in France when workers threaten to attack plants with improvised explosive devices they get more money. Personally, I think these men are criminals, I think they're a danger to the public, and that they belong in jail for the rest of their lives. There is no excuse, none what so ever, for threatening to people with explosives. France. 
Oh, and the kidnappings are yet another felony. This sort of criminal activity needs to be stomped on with an iron boot and the criminals behind it need to be made examples of.
US firm averts French explosion
A US construction equipment firm has agreed to pay extra compensation to French workers who had threatened to explode gas canisters at their plant.
Staff at JLG Industries in Tonneins, south-western France, made the threat in order to get better redundancy terms for 53 workers.
It is the third such incident in which workers have threatened violence against employers.
Elsewhere, French workers have taken managers hostage in "boss-nappings".
The French Employment Minister, Laurent Wauquiez, described the tactics as "blackmail".
In the JLG deal, the 53 affected workers were each guaranteed 30,000 euros (£26,000; $42,000) in severance pay.
JLG Industries is a subsidiary of the US company Oshkosh, which makes cranes and work platforms.
Meanwhile, a tense stand-off continues at the bankrupt New Fabris car plant in Chatellerault, south-west of Paris, where workers have also made a threat to blow up the factory.
They have given a 31 July deadline for Renault and Peugeot, which provided 90% of the plant's work, to pay them 30,000 euros each.
Renault and PSA Peugeot said it was not their responsibility to pay workers.
The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says there is an acute sense of injustice in France at the moment, with many workers complaining that while their bosses continue to reap company benefits and bonuses, they are paying for this economic crisis with their jobs.
Story from BBC NEWS:
A US construction equipment firm has agreed to pay extra compensation to French workers who had threatened to explode gas canisters at their plant.
Staff at JLG Industries in Tonneins, south-western France, made the threat in order to get better redundancy terms for 53 workers.
It is the third such incident in which workers have threatened violence against employers.
Elsewhere, French workers have taken managers hostage in "boss-nappings".
The French Employment Minister, Laurent Wauquiez, described the tactics as "blackmail".
In the JLG deal, the 53 affected workers were each guaranteed 30,000 euros (£26,000; $42,000) in severance pay.
JLG Industries is a subsidiary of the US company Oshkosh, which makes cranes and work platforms.
Meanwhile, a tense stand-off continues at the bankrupt New Fabris car plant in Chatellerault, south-west of Paris, where workers have also made a threat to blow up the factory.
They have given a 31 July deadline for Renault and Peugeot, which provided 90% of the plant's work, to pay them 30,000 euros each.
Renault and PSA Peugeot said it was not their responsibility to pay workers.
The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says there is an acute sense of injustice in France at the moment, with many workers complaining that while their bosses continue to reap company benefits and bonuses, they are paying for this economic crisis with their jobs.
Story from BBC NEWS:
Oh, and the kidnappings are yet another felony. This sort of criminal activity needs to be stomped on with an iron boot and the criminals behind it need to be made examples of.
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