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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.

Radio France Internationale

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

The Independent UK

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

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

The Independent UK

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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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.

Reuters

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.

Radio France Internationale

French government set to end strike by ordering fuel workers back to work

France will order striking workers at Esso-ExxonMobil refineries and fuel depots back to their posts in order to end shortages causing headaches for millions of motorists, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Tuesday.

France 24

France orders some fuel staff back to work to tackle refineries strike

The French government on Tuesday said it would requisition staff at some petrol depots as it battles to secure petrol supplies following weeks-long strikes, putting it on a collision course with the hardline CGT union as social tensions rise.

Reuters

No relief in sight for French motorists as strike is extended

As the strike by staff at the fuel distributors TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil continues, workers have voted to extend their industrial action into Tuesday. Autoroute filling stations which are run by TotalEnergies will close on Monday night.

Radio France Internationale

France’s oil strikes push on as petrol station queues worsen

The country’s total refinery output has been reduced by more than 60% over the past two weeks

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TotalEnergies accelerates refinery wage talks as fuel supply shrinks

TotalEnergies on Sunday offered to bring forward wage talks, in response to union demands, as it sought to end a strike that has disrupted supplies to almost a third of French petrol stations and led the government to tap strategic reserves.

France 24

France's fuel shortage causes frustration for motorists, anxiety for government

Petrol pumps have been running dry in France as striking energy workers disrupt deliveries. As frustration mounts among motorists, businesses and beyond, President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm.

Reuters

France struggles with refinery strikes, but not planning petrol rationing

More than a fifth of France's service stations were grappling with supply problems on Saturday, the energy ministry said, as strikes at refineries run by oil majors TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil continued to strain drivers' nerves.

Reuters

France taps strategic fuel reserves as refinery strike grinds on

France has tapped its strategic fuel reserves to resupply petrol stations that have run dry, the government said on Wednesday, amid strikes by workers at refineries and depots that have stunted production and blocked deliveries.

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Reuters

French refinery strike continues at four sites for eighth day

Strikes have disrupted TotalEnergies' oil products refining and delivery for an eighth day, with four of its French plants hit by continuing industrial action by workers, a CGT trade union representative told Reuters.

Reuters

Seventh day of strikes disrupts French refineries

Strikes are disrupting TotalEnergies' oil products refining and delivery for a seventh day at four sites throughout France, a CGT trade union representative told Reuters on Monday.

Radio France Internationale

Thousands strike in call for increased wages, earlier retirement

The nationwide strike called by trade union groups has seen 10,000 protestors in the western region of Brittany. There were 3,000 in the southern city of Montpellier, somewhat fewer in Perpignan. The stoppages are reported to have caused some disruption but were not widely supported.

The Guardian - UK

French teachers and transport workers strike over pay and pension age

Unions push for wage rises amid cost of living crisis and ditching of plans to raise retirement age

Reuters

Nationwide strike disrupts France's energy sector as social tensions grow

A nationwide strike on Thursday disrupted the French energy sector, taking a large chunk of the nuclear production offline, as workers push for a pay hike amid rising tensions between unions and the government over a planned pensions reform.

Radio France Internationale

Macron reboots 'necessary' reform drive as opponents prepare for battle

French President Emmanuel Macron will get a taste of public resistance to his second-term reform agenda this week as trade unions call for the first nationwide strike since he was re-elected in April.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Macron Restarts Reform Drive as Opponents Prepare for Battle

French President Emmanuel Macron will get a taste of public resistance to his second-term reform agenda this week during the first nationwide strike called since his re-election in April. The 44-year-old head of state has pledged to push ahead with raising the retirement age having backed away from the explosive…

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