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French adhesive workers stick it to Brit boss
Sacre glue!
The British boss of a French adhesive factory is being held captive by workers over redundancy fears.
The sticky situation started Tuesday night, the Beeb reports.
The factory in the south-east is just the latest to fall foul of this increasingly common French reaction to the current economic squeeze.
Bosses at a Sony videotape plant, a 3M pharmaceutical factory and a Caterpillar plant have all suffered similar fates.
Four bosses are stuck inside after union negotiations over 68 job losses failed.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has said such boss-napping is unacceptable and that workers could face prosecution.
French political protest has always been imaginative.
Current anti-Sarkozy protestors are wearing badges or T-shirts which refer to a 17th Century romantic novel that the president dismissed as rubbish. Which makes a change from setting fire to English sheep, at least. ®