Oil firm offers talks with French unions to stop fuel depot blockades
Vehicle owners have faced increasingly long waits to fill their tanks after 10 days of strikes by workers demanding higher wages in response to soaring prices.
BossesBosses at TotalEnergies said on Sunday they would bring forward annual pay talks with unions if they dropped a blockade of fuel depots and refineries that has led to a shortage of petrol supplies across France, reports RFI.
Bosses at TotalEnergies said on Sunday they would bring forward annual pay talks with unions if they dropped a blockade of fuel depots and refineries that has led to a shortage of petrol supplies across France.
Vehicle owners have faced increasingly long waits to fill their tanks after 10 days of strikes by workers demanding higher wages in response to soaring prices.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, France's minister of energy transition, said the TotalEnergies offer was a step in the right direction.
"A solution must be found without delay," she added. "The French people must not suffer the consequences of a labour movement any longer. This dispute must end."
