Workers demonstrate on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 week ago

Workers demonstrate on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'.

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  1. This 1970 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 by Alcatel-Lucent shows Bell Labs researchers Willard Boyle, left, and George Smith at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., with the charge-coupled device, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital information. Smith and Boyle, and Charles K. Kao, whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.
  2. This 1970 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 by Alcatel-Lucent shows Bell Labs researchers Willard Boyle, left, and George Smith with the charge-coupled device, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital information. Smith and Boyle, and Charles K. Kao, whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.
  3. Employees of French telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent dig to uncover cables on September 17, 2009 on the Beg Legueur beach in Trebeurden, western France during a demonstration to protest against a social plan that threatens 200 jobs among 900 at the firm's Lannion plant. Alcatel-Lucent has been through a long period of cuts and boardroom upheavals since France's Alcatel and US group Lucent merged.
  4. Employees of French telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent dig to uncover cables on September 17, 2009 on the Beg Legueur beach in Trebeurden, western France during a demonstration to protest against a social plan that threatens 200 jobs among 900 at the firm's Lannion plant. Alcatel-Lucent has been through a long period of cuts and boardroom upheavals since France's Alcatel and US group Lucent merged.
  5. Employees of French telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent dig to uncover a cable on September 17, 2009 on the Beg Legueur beach in Trebeurden, western France during a demonstration to protest against a social plan that threatens 200 jobs among 900 at the firm's Lannion plant. Alcatel-Lucent has been through a long period of cuts and boardroom upheavals since France's Alcatel and US group Lucent merged.
  6. An unionist of French telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent digs to uncover a cable on September 17, 2009 on the Beg Legueur beach in Trebeurden, western France during a demonstration to protest against a social plan that threatens 200 jobs among 900 at the firm's Lannion plant. Alcatel-Lucent has been through a long period of cuts and boardroom upheavals since France's Alcatel and US group Lucent merged.
  7. An unionist of French telecom firm Alcatel-Lucent digs to uncover a cable on September 17, 2009 on the Beg Legueur beach in Trebeurden, western France during a demonstration to protest against a social plan that threatens 200 jobs among 900 at the firm's Lannion plant. Alcatel-Lucent has been through a long period of cuts and boardroom upheavals since France's Alcatel and US group Lucent merged.
  8. Employees from communications provider Alcatel-Lucent demonstrate in Orvault near Nantes, western France, September 16, 2009 against a company plan to reduce employee numbers in their factories. The banner reads "No to delocalisation".
  9. Employees from communications provider Alcatel-Lucent demonstrate in Orvault near Nantes, western France, September 16, 2009 against a company plan to reduce employee numbers in their factories. The slogan reads "yes to employment".
  10. Employees from communications provider Alcatel-Lucent demonstrate in Orvault near Nantes, western France, September 16, 2009 against a company plan to reduce employee numbers in their factories. The slogan reads "No to delocalisation".
  11. Workers listen to trade-union leaders during a demonstration on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'.
  12. Workers listen to trade-union leaders during a demonstration on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan (foreground) said' I want to keep my job'.
  13. Two workers from French Alps show their claims during a demonstration on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'.
  14. Workers hold banners during a demonstration on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan (bottom) reads 'Stop retrenchments'.
  15. Workers listen to trade-union leaders during a demonstration on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'.
  16. Workers demonstrate on November 10, 2009 in Paris, to protest against job cuts in French telecommunications equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent. The group will cut its 26,000 strong European workforce by a sixth this year and next as the company restructures, a French union source said on October 21. The slogan on the tee-shirts reads 'Don't touch my job'.

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