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Just an FYI:
Pfizer Staff Strike at French Viagra Factory, Demand Higher Pay
Paris, Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer Inc. workers went on
strike at a French factory, the only European plant that makes
impotence pill Viagra, as they sought to benefit from the
success of the world's best-selling impotence treatment, Agence
France Presse news agency reported. During the strike, which was
scheduled to last five hours and was called after Pfizer
management ''refused to make acceptable proposals,'' 200 workers
blocked trucks leaving the factory near Tours, central France,
AFP said. In addition to higher pay, workers asked for a 5,000
French franc ($917) bonus, AFP said, citing the union.
Pfizer said last week third-quarter sales of Viagra, which
got European Union marketing approval on Sept. 15, slowed to
$141 million from $411 million in the second quarter, following
the most successful ever U.S. introduction of any drug in April.
(Agence France Presse, 10/19, www.afp.com) |
