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French Court Sentences Two Ex-Goodyear Workers for “Bossnapping”
Two former workers at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory in Amiens, France, have been given two-year prison sentences for holding two managers hostage in 2014, the Financial Times report
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Two former workers at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. factory in Amiens, France, have been given two-year prison sentences for holding two managers hostage in 2014, the Financial Times reports.
The workers “bossnapped” the executives, who were later freed by police, in protest of Goodyear’s plan to shut down the plant. The facility has since closed.
The incident prompted Titan International Inc., a U.S. maker of agricultural tires, to drop plans to rescue the factory and its 1,200 workers. The kidnapping also hobbled France’s efforts to portray itself as a friendly environment for new business investment.
FT notes the sentence—nine months in prison and 15 months suspended—is unusually strong for France, where courts have shrugged off such lawbreaking in the
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