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Reuters
Reuters
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By Tassilo Hummel and Caroline Pailliez

TotalEnergies accelerates refinery wage talks as fuel supply shrinks

A cyclist rides past a closed TotalEnergies gas station near a petrol storage facility in Haulchin, near Valenciennes, France, October 9, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

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.

"Provided the blockades will end and all labour representatives agree, the company proposes to advance to October the start of mandatory annual wage talks," it said in a statement.

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