Now that Compagnie des Machines Bull SA’s factory in Angers has become the sole manufacturing site for its GCOS and Unix systems, the company has asked unions to approve a return to a thirty-eight and a half-hour working week: according to reports in the French press, Charles Dehelly, Bull’s new director of manufacturing, has asked workers to accept longer hours without a corresponding salary increase; a Bull spokesman denied the claims; over the last few years, he said, people have been working 33 hours for 38 and a half hours pay; so, to increase productivity, Dehelly sim-ply asked them to work the number of hours for which they were paid.
