Opposing team - Opening speech

Recently, you could see that the new fashion to help find solutions to difficult negotiations between workers and leaders of a firm is the bossnapping. The idea is that the workers held the boss of the firm hostage into his office until a solution judged good by the workers is found to solve the problems of the firm. It recently happened for a company run by the U.S factory 3M for instance. But our team strongly believe that this new habit isn't a good solution at all.

First, everyone has to understand that this way of acting is a strong attack to the basic rights of the person held hostage, especially to his freedom. And according to laws, it is forbidden to held someone against his will if is this person didn't committed any crime or isn't suspected of having committed some. So, our team is opposed to bossnapping since we strongly believe that there is many other ways to find a solution in this kind of situation which are completely legal and have good results.
So bossnapping make some salaried be outlaw. It is very dangerous for them because it will follow them and if their firm finally go bankrupt, do they really think that an other firm will take the risk to hire them ? Bossnapping isn't only a problem for leaders or for the health of the enterprise, it is also dangerous for the workers who do it. It is a real bet.

But the main reason which makes bossnapping a huge error is that it do not really help the negotiations and complicate it a lot by adding a new dimension to it. Indeed, it is a weak way of pressure. The boss is only blocked into his office and knows that it won't be for more than a week if the workers don't want to have all the public opinion against them. For the company 3M for instance, the boss have been held less than 48 hours. That's why bossnapping could only give an important weight to the workers if they have the possibility to physically hurt the boss, which should be ethically unbearable and would make the “bossnappers” outlaw.

People have to be aware that now, thanks to many laws voted to defend the rights of workers, the leaders ans workers of a firm have almost equal weight in the negotiations in crisis situation. And if the situation is too complicated and the two parts are not able to agree on the best attitude to have, the government often decide to send a mediator who will try to split the difference by a fair way. So today both parts can express their opinion and be listened and have quite the same weight into the decision. So bossnapping only disturb the balance created by the French law and only complicate the negotiations by adding a threat dimension which make more difficult to focus on the situation of the firm and on the right attitude to have to help the workers but also the enterprise.

Here are the main reasons which make that our team is opposed to bossnapping. So don't be touched by the proposing team who will surely try to make you cry with the distress of workers losing their job and obliged to bossnapp their leader to still have a reason to live because these workers have other stronger ways to be listened. That's why you should VOTE FOR US !!