In grim French north, worker unrest looks to last
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Goodyear employees attend an unionist meeting at the entrance of the Goodyear tyres factory in Amiens, on Feb 26, 2013. Workers at a dying French tire factory who've become the butt of American jokes are staging a day of last-ditch protests to try to save their jobs. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
AMIENS, France (AP) - Workers at a dying French tire factory who've become the butt of American jokes are staging a day of last-ditch protests to try to save their jobs.
The protests on Tuesday at the Goodyear plant in the northern city of Amiens come after efforts to find a new buyer for the struggling plant have fizzled.
An American executive who considered buying it sent a letter last week to the French government saying that France's economic model is too worker-friendly and discourages investment.
Union leader Mickael Wamen says Goodyear "wants to bring us down to the level of a Chinese worker who earns one euro and lives in misery."
