Notes : Employees at a French 3M factory held a manager hostage for more than 24 hours Wednesday and Thursday of last week over a dispute about terms for laid-off staff . Workers were one of the people being held hostage at Caterpillar headquarters . Workers angry that Caterpillar propose cutting more than 700 jobs . They did not want to kill the executives but get them to negotiate , official says . A senior union executive called the hostage - taking ` ` unhelpful ''
Notes : Workers were one of the people being held hostage at Caterpillar headquarters . Workers angry that Caterpillar propose cutting more than 700 jobs . They did not want to kill the executives but get them to negotiate , official says . A senior union executive called the hostage - taking ` ` unhelpful ''