Work stoppage scheduled to begin Friday at Marseille and Le Harve
Marseille,France -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Jan 26, 2011: -- French dockers and port workers will stage a four-day nationwide strike on Friday, Jan. 28, in a major escalation of a long-running row over pensions and working conditions... The Communist-led CGT, the biggest docker union, today called for a third successive weekend stoppage as leading ports struggle to clear up a backlog of cargo built up during the previous strikes... The strikes are expected to completely or partially close down France’s major ports, including Marseille and Le Havre, the nation’s biggest container hub... The union said the strike, like previous stoppages, would not affect oil traffic and passenger ships, but would halt mainly container traffic and bulk shipment...
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