On Jan 8, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Wojtek writes:
>
>> We certainly witnessed a decline in labor militancy in most
>> Western countries ...
>
> Meanwhile, in Paris:
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> https://www.google.com/search?q=goodyear+paris
>
> - Workers seize 2 bosses at French Goodyear
> - In France, kidnapping the boss usually pays off
> - Captive Goodyear bosses holed up at French site
> - French Goodyear plant executives taken hostage amid dispute
Another lost defensive skirmish. The French term for this sort of thing is "barroud d'honneur"--a useless fight initiated, after the battle has been lost, to keep up the prestige of the losing side. Notable historical examples include Hamburg (1923) and Canton (1927).
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64