1.0 link 179021 <![CDATA[3M Boss Held Hostage By French Strikers]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/25/3m-boss-held-hostage-by-f_n_179021.html Striking French workers for US manufacturer 3M were holding their boss hostage today at a plant south of Paris as anger over layoffs and cutbacks mounted around the country.

A few dozen strikers took turns standing guard outside factory offices where the director of 3M's French operations, Luc Rousselet, has been holed up since yesterday. The workers did not threaten any violence and the atmosphere was calm at the factory on the outskirts of Pithiviers.

A few police officers stood outside the...

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