French Rubber

The CEO of Goodyear told France's left-wing industry minister in a letter published by Paris media that he had no interest in buying a doomed rubber plant in France.

"The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three, Goodyear's top man wrote .

"I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that's the French way!"

"How stupid do you think we are?" he asked at one point.

"[W]e're going to buy a Chinese tire company or an Indian one, pay less than one Euro per hour wage and ship all the tires France needs," he said. "You can keep the so-called workers."