Originally Posted by
EDLB
Send in my resume to a Toulouse based company. If you move the company headquarter to Chicago, it does not take long until you have Chicago style solutions to engineering problems.
In Tououse your union might be more powerful. Otherwise ... companies are global, so are their morals - minor differences may apply. Probably not worth leaving your continent of choice.
At least I have experienced those attitudes in good old European engineering companies, no apparent links to the wild west.