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Schools, transport disrupted as French workers strike for higher wages

Thousands of people took to the streets across France on Tuesday and commuters faced delays as unions staged a nationwide strike for higher salaries, as they remain in deadlock with the government over walkouts at oil depots that have sparked fuel shortages.

France 24

France Prepares for Major Disruptions as Unions Call Transport Strike

France was preparing for a day of major disruptions on Tuesday after unions called a nationwide transport strike as they remain in deadlock with the government over walkouts at oil depots that have sparked fuel shortages. The move comes after workers at several refineries and depots operated by energy giant…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scuffles break out as French strike to call for higher wages

Dozens of black-clad protesters clashed with police and broke shop windows on Tuesday on the margins of a demonstration when several thousand people took to the streets of Paris to call for wage hikes as high inflation eats away their purchasing power.

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France braces for disruption as railways to join strike Tuesday

France is bracing for more work and travel disruption Tuesday as the CGT and other labor unions ask workers across industries to join a walkout by some refinery employees to demand higher wages as inflation dents purchasing power.

Tribune News Service

Tens of thousands take to the streets of Paris in protest over cost of living, climate inaction

Nearly three weeks into a strike that has forced filling stations across France to close, an estimated 140,000 demonstrators – according to the organisers – took to the streets of Paris this Sunday in protest against soaring living costs, fuel strikes and climate inaction. Police say participation was far lower.

Radio France Internationale

France's CGT union votes to continue strike at TotalEnergies refineries

France's militant CGT union at the centre of a weeks-long strike at French oil giant TotalEnergies has voted to continue industrial action.

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CGT union votes to continue strike at TotalEnergies' French refineries

The CGT union at the centre of a weeks-long strike at French oil major TotalEnergies voted on Saturday to continue the walkout, CGT union representative Fabien Cros said.

Reuters

French strike fever spreads as Macron's opponents push for confrontation

French railway workers and civil servants will next week join oil refinery staff with work stoppages, raising fears that anger over the rising cost of living could lead to a winter of discontent.

Radio France Internationale

Strikes continue in French refineries, disrupt fuel supplies

Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel supplies as the left-wing CGT union rejected a deal over a pay increase

The Independent UK

Staff at French oil giant TotalEnergies continue strike after wage talks fail

France's CGT union, at the core of a three week strike at TotalEnergies, walked out of wage talks on Thursday night, scuppering hopes for an end to a standoff that has disrupted everyday life as a third of petrol stations run dry.

Radio France Internationale

Two French unions sign agreement with TotalEnergies, but CGT continues strike

TotalEnergies on Friday said the company had signed a salary agreement with two French unions. With the hardline CGT union walking out of negotiations, however, France continued to face fuel shortages ahead of a general public sector strike next week.

France 24

CGT union shuns TotalEnergies talks as French petrol crisis drags on

The CGT union at the core of a weeks-long strike at oil major TotalEnergies slammed the door to talks on Friday, leaving more moderate unions to reach a wage deal as industrial action continues to leave French petrol stations short of fuel.

Reuters

French ministers urge oil giant to raise wages as strikes continue

One in three petrol stations struggling for fuel as striking workers call for share of oil companies’ high profits

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Radio France Internationale

Police order striking French petrol staff back to work

Workers at an oil refinery in northern France have agreed to go back to work after weeks of striking as the government ordered more staff back to work at other sites, saying petrol shortages are taking too big a toll on the economy.

Radio France Internationale

French media divided over who's to blame for crippling fuel strike

As the wage dispute in the petrol refinery and distribution sector enters carries on, the French daily newspapers are sharply divided on the question of who is to blame for the chaos on the nation's streets, with desperate motorists scrambling for a few drops of juice.

The Independent UK

French trade union calls for strikes to be extended across energy sector

Six of France’s seven oil refineries have shut their doors over the past three weeks

France 24

French strikes spread as government orders fuel depot staff back to work

French railway workers and civil servants voted on Thursday to join striking oil refinery staff with a walkout next week after the French government resorted to emergency powers to compel some fuel depot workers to return to their jobs in a bid to ease petrol shortages.

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The Independent UK

France orders striking oil workers back-to-work as fuel shortages grow

Union threatens legal challenge after state steps in to end fuel shortages

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France orders striking fuel refinery employees back to work

Energy ministry says it has requisitioned staff at a depot in Normandy as showdown with CGT union escalates.

The Guardian - UK

Fears French fuel crisis could spread amid plans to order strikers to work

Union vows to fight government in court as workers at ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies demand pay rise and share of profits

France 24

Workers at France’s refineries and fuel depots vote to continue strikes

Striking French oil refinery employees voted Wednesday to maintain blockades now in their third week, despite a government order for some of them to return to work in a bid to get fuel supplies flowing.

Reuters

France orders fuel depot strikers back to work, union vows to challenge it

France on Wednesday ordered some staff at an Exxon Mobil fuel depot back to work and warned a TotalEnergies depot could be next, risking a wider conflict with trade unions as it battles to secure petrol supplies after weeks of strikes.

Radio France Internationale

French PM orders staff back to work to unblock fuel depots, but strikes continue

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has requisitioned staff at some petrol depots as the government battles to secure fuel supplies following weeks of strikes over a wage dispute. The move puts it on a collision course with the hardline CGT union.

Radio France Internationale

French government ready to 'intervene' to break fuel depot strike

The French government has called for the immediate lifting of fuel depot blockage and has threatened to intervenue to break the deadlock. This as workers from TotalEnergies and Esso-Exxon Mobil pursue their strike action for better salaries.

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