France Telecom staff stage protests over wave of suicides

France Telecom workers staged protests Thursday over a wave of a suicides that union leaders blame on the company's failure to help staff deal with the stress from restructuring. Total Telecom reports.

About 100 employees rallied in Paris and 50 others gathered in the city of Troyes where a 49-year-old technician Wednesday stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife after learning that he had been demoted.

The technician was recovering in hospital but the incident came after a worker took his own life in August, becoming the 22nd France Telecom employee to commit suicide in 18 months.

... The CFDT union charged last month that there was a link between the suicides and management style at France Telecom, which is undergoing massive restructuring to become more competitive.

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