The French government is to order workers back to their jobs at a major fuel refinery, as petrol shortages continue amid a long-running nationwide strike for better salaries and a share of oil firm’s huge profits.
The government confirmed that the requisition of essential fuel workers at the blockaded Port Jérôme refinery at Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon, in Normandy, would begin on Wednesday. But the controversial move could risk stoppages spreading to other sectors in support of the fuel strikers.
