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But they also have much longer working hours, no real holidays and no real unions to do the collective bargaining for them. Labour regulations ? I bet they barely know the concept. I can remember Disney trying something similar in France in 1992 (the French media and public really unleashed hell on them - the government went after them and the unions promised them a series of French-style strikes) - it nearly got them chucked out of Europe altogether. Then they surrendered and ran Euro Disney the French, the European way. Here employers don't run the economy on their own accord - here this is something done by the Holy Trinity of the Economy: employers organisations, unions and the state (the latter can act both in the role of employer - when dealing with the unions - or as mediator which then takes over and enshrines what has been decided). It should be no surprise that American companies enjoy a shitty reputation here and few people I know, would like to work for them since they always try to cut corners on what was agreed between them and the unions in the collective labour agreement.
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