Demonstrators Occupy French Satellite Factories

摘要

A long-simmering dispute between unions representing employees of Thales Alenia Space's French satellite-production sites escalated the week of April 2 with demonstrators occupying offices and demanding immediate negotiations on 2010 salaries.rnThe demonstrators, representing half a dozen different unions, staged sit-ins but did no damage to property. Work on satellite antennas and subsystems in Toulouse, and at the Cannes satellite-integration plant, continued without interruption, company officials said.