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Thursday, August 20, 2009

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The French Joe Hill's Rallying Cry Was "Don't Mourn, Boys, Poison The River"

Employees of a French trucking company facing possible closure "have threatened to dump a toxic substance into the River Seine if their demands for extra compensation are not met, union representatives said on Thursday."

Previously: The French Art Of Labor Relations

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Tulletilsynet
Tulletilsynet (#333)

(Boy this one sure drew a crowd.)

... I was relieved to learn that the strikers did not wish to do this, but felt coerced to violence by the existence of mass media:
[Some dude] said the workers did not wish to carry out their threat and had made it mainly to draw media attention to their plight.

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