Paris,France -Shiply (UK) -19 October 2010: -- Across the channel, French truck drivers have joined both private and public sector workers currently on strike. The nationwide strike has been a reaction to the French government's plan to reform the pension system. The new system would raise the national retirement age to sixty-two and the full state pension age from sixty-five to sixty-seven... Last Saturday, on the fifth day of protests, 825,000 people took to the streets, police reported. However, unions put the figure at 2.5 million to three million. Go-slow protests and blockades from the trucking industry has put the squeeze on fuel supplies across France. An industry representative stated,"at least 1,500 stations have run out of at least one fuel product or are totally dry"... The spectre of fuel shortages has created a wave of panic buying from the public... The lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, has already approved the reform. Further strike action have been planned for today as the country awaits the Senate's final decision tomorrow...
* Le Havre Dockworkers, Riot Police Clash. Striking French workers paralyze nation's supply chain
Le Havre,Seine-Maritime,Haute-Normandie,France -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Oct 19, 2010: -- Striking French dockworkers, truck drivers and railway employees paralyzed a large swath of the nation's supply chain Oct. 19 amid escalating nationwide protests against government plans to reform the pension system... Dockworkers at Le Havre, France's top container hub, threw stones and paving slabs at riot police who responded with rounds of tear gas during a demonstration this morning through the streets of the northern port city... The local branch of the CGT labor union called for a general strike, raising fears the port, which has been strike-bound over the past three weekends in an unrelated dispute, could face a prolonged walkout... Marseille, France's largest port by tonnage, is at a standstill with three container ships and nine roll-on, roll-off carriers among the vessels unable to load as dockworkers supported the nationwide stoppage that has hit most French ports... (Photo: Le Havre Port)
* France - French Unions Eye Oct. 26 Strike. Timing of next move in pension reform protest debated
Paris,France -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Oct 21, 2010: -- France's eight largest labor unions met Oct. 21 to co-ordinate strategy for their nationwide protests against government plans to raise the minimum retirement age... Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT, the biggest union which is strong in the ports, rail and trucking sectors, urged more strikes like the 24-hour strike on Tuesday that paralyzed ports and rails and closed a third of the nation's gas stations... The next round of strikes is expected to take place on Oct. 26... Polls show up to 70 percent of the French population support the strikes aimed at forcing the government to scale back plans to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60... (Image from joc.com: tankers at the port of Marseille's Fos-Lavera oil terminal)Labels: strikes and protests
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