It's management that lays off but it's Manuel Valls who calls angry employees “louts.”
“Are the extremists at Air France going to kill the airline?” was yesterday's over-generalized headline in Le Figaro newspaper. “Uncompromising” trade unions and “hostile employees” are said to be responsible for the airline's deterioration and its financial health. Worse, the Air France executives, who just wanted to announce to the employees the shutting down of lines and the axing of 2,900 jobs with layoffs in (...)
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