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The anger and the violence of the employees further to the announcement of the decisions

The workforce reductions have catastrophic consequences and this provokes the anger of the Air France employees. A few days ago, during a meeting with the trade union, Air France executives confirmed the possibility of the abolition of 2900 posts. Following this announcement, Air France employees have demonstrated against the workforce reduction. The demonstration has turned violent and some employees have assaulted the executives. Human resources manager Xavier Broseta had his shirt ripped off as he climbed over barriers to escape, while another executive had his shirt and jacket torn. The consequences of this demonstration are terrible, 7 people have been hurt including 5 members of management and a watchman. These events have provoked many reactions. The government has condemned these actions and explained that they were unacceptable.
The secretary general of the labor force has deplored the violence even if he said that he understood the employees’ exasperation. The violent scenes are pretty shocking and reflect the climate of tension in Air France.


In conclusion, we can say that Air France employees are hungry and desperate at the  idea of losing their jobs. They have already made so many sacrifices to restore Air France to growth but the situation is now bad. They are tired of these constant workforce reductions and this led some of them to become violent. If I had to give my own opinion, I would say that I can understand that employees are revolting against the executives however, that does not explain violence. Conflict cannot be resolved through violence. Human resources executives are not at fault, they are just doing their jobs and trying to redress the situation.

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The employees reacted with anger and violence to the announcement of these decisions.

These workforce reductions have catastrophic consequences since it provoke the anger of Air France employees. A few days ago, during a meeting with the trade union, Air France executives have confirmed the possibility of the abolition of 2900 posts. Following this announcement, Air France employees have demonstrated against workforce reduction. The demonstration has turned violent since some employees have assaulted the executives. Human resources manager Xavier Broseta had his shirt ripped off as he climbed over barriers to escape, while another executive had his shirt and jacket torn. The consequences of this demonstration are terrible since 7 people have been hurt whose 5 members of the management and a watchman. These events have provoked many reactions. The government has condemned theses actions by explaining that they were unacceptable.
The secretary general of the labor force has deplored the violence even if he said that he understand the employees’ exasperation. Theses violence scenes are pretty shocking and reflect the climate of tension in Air France.


As a conclusion, we can say that Air France employees are hungry and desperate to idea of loosing their jobs. They have already made so many sacrifices to restore Air France growth but the situation goes always so badly. They are tired of these constant workforce reductions and that led some of them to become violent. If I had to give my own opinion, I would say that I could understand that employees are revolting against the executives however, that does not explain violence. Conflict cannot be resolved through violence. Human resources executives are not at fault, they are just doing their jobs and try to redress the situation.