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Our labor unions would be pushing for the same thing if thought they could get away with it:
Awesome: American CEO Blasts French Communists' Work Ethic
by JOHN SEXTON 20 Feb 2013
Last month Goodyear announced it would close a manufacturing plant in Amiens, France after five years spent haggling with a "communist-backed" union. French Minister of Industrial Renewal Arnaud Montebourg then sent a letter to Titan industries encouraging the company to consider an investment to save the plant. The response from Titan CEO Maurice Taylor is probably not what the Minister was expecting:
Dear Mr. Montebourg:
I have just returned to the United States from Australia where I have been for the past few weeks on business; therefore, my apologies for answering your letter dated 31 January 2013.
I appreciate your thinking that your Ministry is protecting industrial activities and jobs in France. I and Titan have a 40-year history of buying closed factories and companies, losing millions of dollars and turning them around to create a good business, paying good wages. Goodyear tried for over four years to save part of the Amiens jobs that are some of the highest paid, but the French unions and French government did nothing but talk.
I have visited the factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three, and work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that’s the French way!
The Chinese are shipping tires into France - really all over Europe - and yet you do nothing. In five years, Michelin won’t be able to produce tire in France. France will lose its industrial business because government is more government.
Sir, your letter states you want Titan to start a discussion. How stupid do you think we are? Titan is the one with money and talent to produce tires. What does the crazy union have? It has the French government. The French farmer wants cheap tire. He does not care if the tires are from China or India and governments are subsidizing them. Your government doesn’t care either. “We’re French!”
The US government is not much better than the French. Titan had to pay millions to Washington lawyers to sue the Chinese tire companies because of their subsidizing. Titan won. The government collects the duties. We don’t get the duties, the government does.
Titan is going to buy a Chinese tire company or an Indian one, pay less than one Euro per hour and ship all the tires France needs. You can keep the so-called workers. Titan has no interest in the Amien North factory.
Best regards,
Maurice M. Taylor, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/...rican-CEO-Blasts-French-Communists-Work-Ethic
, pay less than one Euro per hour and ship all the tires France needs. You can keep the so-called workers.
We're talking about Socialist France.
The right wing view of America's future, ladies and gentlemen.
So the business that signed the contract was socialist?
my goodness
you really have earned an award to biggest DUMMY
I think the business that signed a contract allowing their workers to do that is pretty dumb. I believe in personal responsibility. I guess you would think that's dumb.
no THAT is NOT dumb
your COMMENT however is VERY DUMB
The right wing view of America's future, ladies and gentlemen.
We spent a fortune in the 20th Century protecting ourselves and you from the French future they can't wait to experience.
Is that auto-translated from French, or did that CEO got stuck at grade school level literacy?
Is that auto-translated from French, or did that CEO got stuck at grade school level literacy?