Bossnapping: "I suspect the US would treat it as terrorism and shoot everyone involved."

 

Reuters.  Bossnapping returns to France.  The target?  A couple of unlucky Goodyear executives.

 What's bossnapping?  Here's the entry for it in Wikipedia

Bossnapping:  a form of lock-in where employees detain management in the workplace, often in protest against lay-offs and redundancies, and has especially been carried out in France. The term gained wide usage in the media following a series of bossnapping incidents in the spring of 2009 in France where workers used the tactic in the context of widespread labor unrest resulting from the late 2000 recession. 

Where did the tactic originate? 

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