Tiny Union Takes on French Retailer | Business | The Moscow Times: “The head of a Russian union for employees at French retailer Leroy Merlin said Monday that he had been offered a large sum of money to shut down the union and leave amid a high-stakes battle between Russian workers and a foreign employer.
The union head, Ivan Kochura, said he had rejected the offer, made by a Leroy Merlin executive shortly after he formed the union in 2007, and announced that workers would hold a picket outside one of the retailer’s Moscow do-it-yourself stores on Tuesday and another at the French Embassy next week.”