Goodyear Managers Held by French Union in Plant Dispute
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Two managers at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s French subsidiary were taken hostage by the CGT union and other workers in a dispute over closing a plant.
“The director and the head of human resources have been retained” this morning, Mickael Wamen, the CGT leader at Goodyear’s Amiens-Nord factory in northern France, said today by phone. “They’ll be held hostage until we have a guarantee that real negotiations will start on bonuses and severance packages for all employees.”