Almost half of French people believe it is acceptable for workers facing layoffs to lock up their bosses, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday.

　　Staff at French plants run by Sony, 3M and Caterpillar have held managers inside the factories overnight, in three separate incidents, to demand better layoff terms -- a new form of labor action dubbed "bossnapping" by the media.

　　A poll by the CSA institute for Le Parisien newspaper found 50 percent of French people surveyed disapproved of such acts, but 45 percent thought they were acceptable.

　　"They are not in the majority ... but 45 percent is an enormous percentage and it demonstrates the extent of exasperation among the public at this time of economic crisis," Le Parisien said.

　　On March 31, billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault was trapped in a taxi in Paris for an hour by staff from his PPR luxury and retail group who were angry about layoffs. Riot police intervened to free him.

　　Le Parisien found that 56 percent of blue-collar workers polled approved of bossnappings while 41 percent disapproved. Among white-collar workers, 59 percent were against the practice while 40 percent thought it was acceptable.

　　"These hostage takings, we know how it starts but no one knows how far it can go," said Xavier Bertrand, a former labor minister now secretary-general of the ruling UMP party.

　　"Our country must avoid entering a spiral of violence," he said in reaction to the opinion poll, adding that bossnappings "cannot be tolerated."

　　本周二公布的一項(xiàng)民意調(diào)查顯示，近一半的法國人認(rèn)為面臨解雇的工人劫持老板的做法是可以接受的。

　　近日法國發(fā)生了三起員工劫持老板的案件，Sony、3M和Caterpillar公司在法國的分廠都發(fā)生了員工將管理人員劫持在廠內(nèi)一個(gè)晚上，要求更為豐厚的遣散費(fèi)的事件。這一新型勞動行為被媒體稱為“老板劫持（bossnapping）”。

　　這項(xiàng)由CSA調(diào)查機(jī)構(gòu)為《巴黎人報(bào)》開展的民調(diào)發(fā)現(xiàn)，50%的受訪民眾不贊成這種行為，45%的人認(rèn)為可以接受。

　　《巴黎人報(bào)》稱：“雖然不是大多數(shù)，但45%是一個(gè)很高的比率，這表明了民眾在經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)時(shí)期憤怒情緒的廣泛程度。”

　　上月31日，億萬富豪、PPR奢侈品和零售集團(tuán)總裁弗朗西斯-亨利?皮諾特在巴黎的出租車中被因被解雇而憤怒的員工包圍一小時(shí)，直到防暴警察趕來才獲釋。

　　調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，在受訪的藍(lán)領(lǐng)工人中，56%的人贊成“老板劫持”，41%表示反對；在白領(lǐng)員工中，59%的人反對這種做法，40%的人認(rèn)為可以接受。

　　法國前勞工部部長、執(zhí)政黨人民運(yùn)動聯(lián)盟現(xiàn)任秘書長澤維爾?伯特蘭德說：“關(guān)于這些劫持案件，我們知道它們是怎么開始的，但沒有人知道會發(fā)展到什么地步。”

　　他回應(yīng)該民調(diào)說：“我們的國家必須避免陷入暴力漩渦”，并稱老板劫持“不能寬容”。