The New York Times reports that a group of French workers won greater severance benefits from their employer, JLG, by threatening to blow up valuable industrial equipment. And they totally weren't fucking around:
"On Wednesday, the JLG workers placed four of the company’s products — large platform cranes with a total value estimated at $352,400 — in a car park and surrounded them with gas cylinders and kindling."
The workers won an additional $42,000 each in severance pay. I know as a lawyer I am not supposed to condone such things, but I wish U.S. workers would from time to time engage in or at least threaten to engage in the venerable practice of industrial sabotage to win better treatment from employers.
[This by the way was my first blog post ever typed with slightly orange fingers due to Cheeto consumption -- well not actual Cheetos -- Utz Cheese Curls. But close enough. Washed down with sangria. Just like all of the other sophisticated Washington lawyers do.]
