PARIS, Feb 7 More than half of the employees of France's largest energy company will join a nationwide strike against pension reform on Tuesday, disrupting fuel supplies from the company's refineries, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday.
«Deliveries of oil products from the company's plants in France will be disrupted today,» the company's directorate said.
According to the company, every second employee (56%) will take part in the strike. According to the trade union «General Confederation of Labor» (CGT), the protest will be supported by 75% to 100% of refinery and oil storage workers.
So, according to the trade union, 87% of the workers of France's largest refinery in Normandy, which accounts for 22% of France's oil refining capacity, will support the strike. In addition, 80% of the employees of the refinery in the commune of Feisin, 90% of the employees of the refinery in the commune of Donge and 75% of the employees of the La Mede biorefinery in the commune of Châteauneuf-lès-Martigues will also protest. The demonstrations will also be joined by the entire staff of the fuel depot near Dunkirk in northern France.
The company noted, however, that fuel shortages at filling stations are not expected.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born on January 10 presented a draft of the controversial pension reform, which the government plans to adopt in 2023. According to her, the authorities will begin to raise the retirement age in the country by three months a year from September 1, 2023. Thus, by 2030 he will reach 64 years.
The first nationwide strike against pension reform took place throughout France on January 19 — more than 200 demonstrations were held on this day at the call of eight leading French trade unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU). The largest actions took place in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Lille and Nantes. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, more than a million people took part in them, of which 80 thousand were in Paris. 38 people were detained.
The second nationwide strike against raising the retirement age, held on January 31, was attended by 2.8 million people, 87,000 of them in Paris, according to the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) trade union.