Staff at DLJ in London who don't want to join CSFB after it bought the firm last month could always look across the Channel for an alternative response.

Staff at Finacor, the loss-making French brokerage that is being acquired by its rival Viel, have come up with a particularly French approach. Last week, the majority of the 140 staff at the firm exercised the inalienable right of all French workers - and voted to go on strike, in protest at the threat of half of them being made redundant as a result of the deal.