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(machine translation - article via @RevPermanente )

In Bezannes, employees of the ambulance driver Clovis and the coach company Capitale Champagne, subsidiaries of the Dewitte group, have been holding a picket since Monday August 31 for the improvement of their salaries, their working conditions (payment of break times and night hours, maintenance of outfits and modification of schedules) and against the installation of cameras in company vehicles.

The next morning, Laurent Dewitte himself got behind the wheel of a coach and drove into the picket line. The vehicle hit at least two employees, one of whom was dragged about ten meters, the two injured having had to be hospitalized. After getting off the bus, the boss even, according to witnesses, directly threatened the strikers: " I think the next one, before blocking my business, will think twice. "The boss and the second driver were taken into police custody for acts of armed violence, then released a few hours later.

If the clearly deliberate and excessively violent behavior of the leader was greatly shocking, this affair is not isolated and is part of a long history of violence against strikers and trade unionists.
https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Commandos-anti-greves-sequestrations-meurtres-50-nuances-de-violences-patronales

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