http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/05/1428029/-After-thousands-laid-off-workers-stormed-airline-s-headquarters-and-attacked-management?detail=email
Income inequality leads to one thing: Violence. Whether that violence is mental or physical it is still violence. Air France, in recent weeks has been rumored to be planning downsizing jobs. Those plans are now out in the open as Air France execs announced today that they would be laying off 2,900 staff. That news did not go so well:
Bosses were unveiling a revamped restructuring plan after pilots rejected an earlier proposal to work longer hours.
But the board meeting was cut short when hundreds of striking workers stormed into the airline's headquarters in Roissy, outside Paris.
A human resources manager and an executive had their shirts torn from their bodies and needed to be escorted out of the work site. The human resources manager had to climb a fence. This is all after months of unrest for the airline company.
Struggling to regain its financial footing after a crippling two-week pilots’ strike last year, Air France-KLM said on Thursday that it would reduce planned investments in new aircraft and services by more than $680 million over the next two years and would accelerate a cost-cutting drive in the face of stiff competition.
The moves come as the French-Dutch airline group swung to an operating loss of 129 million euros, or about $147 million, for 2014, in contrast to a profit of €130 million a year earlier.
CEOs and middle management—regardless of how the union is being portrayed in most media outlets, the facts are this—if you lie to your workers and then take away their livelihood they may get angry. According to Bloomberg Air France Chairman and CEO Alexandre Begougne de Juniac made only €645,000 ($721,000 US). That's pigeon food compared to some of our American counterparts.
Violence is not the answer but remember this: the British didn't care about Mahatma Gandhi's hunger strike for Mahatma Gandhi, they cared about what the rest of the Indians in the country of India would do if anything happened to Mahatma Gandhi.
poetic justice, people who work for you and help create the business that makes you successful are not disposal throw away's when you decide a dollar less is cause for alarm and sweeping change. had it not been for those same workers you now discard you would not be in position to ruin their lives so mad understatement. if you had that many employees and were successful to this point what makes you think you can regain that economic status with 3,000 less.
btw requiring pilots to work extra hours means flying while over worked with hundreds of passengers lives in their hands sounds dangerously irresponsible to me.
