French fuel depot still on strike: Government
One French fuel depot still remains out of operation because of a strike, although blockades of other depots manned by union activists have been cleared, the government says.
"Blockades have been removed at all the depots, except for the depot at Gargenville (in the Paris area), which is on strike," a transport ministry spokesman said Friday.
The official noted that police reopened 15 depots out of about 100 nationwide with no reported accidents.
"Unblocking these depots will allow an increase in delivery capacity to resupply more and more petrol stations," he added.
The spokesman further said around 20 percent of France’s petrol stations were still facing shortages.
After a week of strikes and blockades, six of the eight oil refineries of France were still either closed or operating at reduced capacity.
The strikes and the blockading of depots by industry workers come in opposition to government-proposed labor reforms.
The French government says the reforms are aimed at boosting the country’s economy and curbing the high unemployment rate. Protesters and workers’ unions, however, say the government wants to make it easier and less costly for employers to lay off workers, calling the reforms an attack on workers’ rights.
The government reforms, which include a loosening of the maximum 35-hour working week and a cap on redundancy payments, were recently forced through the lower house of the French parliament through controversial means but must still be debated in the Senate, the upper house of the bicameral legislature.
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