PARIS (AP) -- Workers at a diaper factory in France are raising a stink about management's plans to close the plant -- in the process, sending a creative plea for help to France's pregnant first lady.
Employees at the Ontex factory in Villefranche-sur-Saone have sent 187 diapers to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. That's one diaper for each employee in the plant, and a none-too-subtle message that while the diapers might be disposable, their jobs aren't.
Union leader Bernard Leblond said workers had "stuck a bright yellow sticker" saying "made in France by the 187 workers of Ontex' on the box containing the diapers and sent it to Fort Bregancon" -- the mansion where supermodel-turned-singer Bruni-Sarkozy is spending her summer vacation.
The plant made 690 million diapers last year. They are sold under store brands by France's main hypermarket chains. A spokesman for the plant's Belgian parent company said the decision to close the plant was announced in May, and negotiations with the employees were ongoing.
It was not immediately known whether Bruni-Sarkozy had received the package.
Bruni-Sarkozy's baby is due before presidential elections next year It is her first child with Sarkozy.
