The walkout, which will initially affect general industries like education and transportation, is an extension of a long-running strike that has affected French refineries and the delivery of supplies to petrol stations for weeks on end.
Workers ’union leaders hope that the employees will move because of the government’s decision to force some of them to return to work in gasoline warehouses to try to restore fuel flows, a step that some say is the right to strike.
Despite the fact that the oil company and other practical unions achieved an agreement on Friday that included a seven percent pay raise and other concessions, the General Confederation of Labor specifically demanded a protracted strike in Total Enege facilities for a fourth week. The General Confederation of Labor is requesting a 10% salary raise, citing inflation and the company’s enormous earnings.
Some train services between London and Paris were reportedly cancelled by Eurostar as a result of the strike.
As tension escalated in the second largest economy in the eurozone, strikes have already extended to other parts of the energy sector, including the giant nuclear power company, Electrical de France, where the necessary maintenance work for energy supplies in Europe will delay.
The French government is getting ready to adopt the 2023 budget using extraordinary constitutional powers that allow it to pass a vote in Parliament, according to Prime Minister Elizabeth Born, who noted on Sunday that the strikes occur amid a hostile political climate.
On Sunday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the exorbitant pricing in Paris. Jean -Luke Milinkon, the leader of the hard -line France Parents Party, along with the writer Annie Erno, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year.
On Tuesday, he called for a strike.
Workers’ unions in France go on strike in response to rising inflation
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