Job-threatened factory workers sent nappy message to Bruni

Workers at a closure-threatened French nappy factory have sent a box of nappies to first lady Carla Bruni in a plea to help them save their jobs.

Employees at the Ontex factory in Villefranche-sur-Saone sent 187 nappies to the pregnant supermodel wife of president Nicolas Sarkozy – one for each worker and a none-too-subtle message that while the nappies might be disposable, their jobs were not.

“We stuck a bright yellow sticker on the box that said: 'Made in France by the 187 workers of Ontex’ and we sent it to Fort Bregancon” – the mansion on the Riviera where Bruni is spending the summer holiday,– union leader Bernard Leblond said.