This is what happened in Toulouse, France when Sanofi planned to close the research facilities. Not only did the union and their government officials get involved, the R&D staff did a haka.
Check out that last hand movement. It looks like they may have saved their jobs, at least temporarily.
We are such wooses here in the US. We meekly accepted our fates as we were forced through the doors, like lambs to the slaughter. We knew there was absolutely no one looking out for us and our severance packages would be revoked if we put up a fight.
There are more videos of their protest. In a couple of them, they have made signs against some of the top management. I’ll have to get the kid to translate for me but I don’t think they were saying nice things. And they got away with it. Incroyable!
Keep it up, guys! Bravo Les Sanofi!
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And here’s the salsa they wrote called Salsa du pognon, which I think means The Money Salsa.
The last part of the song contains these lines:
on lache rien, non on lache rien
tant qu’y a de la lutte
y a de l’espoir
tant qu’y a de la vie
Y a du combat
tant qu’on se bat qu’on est debout
tant qu’on est debout on lachera pas
Which roughly translated mean:
you lose nothing, no nothing is lost
so what was the fight
there is hope
so what has life
There’s the fight
As we fight we are standing
As we are standing on let go
Google translate is not perfect but in this case, nothing is lost in translation
This is my favorite slogan:
Sauvez un chercheur
Mangez les actionnaire
Save a researcher, eat a shareholder.
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Awesome.
Ain’t it just??
I’d have loved to have seen this at our company when our CEO lost us $30 million dollars and still kept his job.
Google translate fails you miserably here.
“We won’t give in, no, we won’t give in
As long as we fight
There is hope
As long as we live
There is Fight
As long as we fight, as long as we stand,
As long as we stand, we won’t give in”
MDR! too funny