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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

French trade union calls for strikes to be extended across energy sector

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A major French trade union has called for the weeks-long strike which has caused shortages and disruption at fuel pumps across the country to be extended across the entire energy sector.

The remarks from the FNME-CGT trade union, which represents workers in the energy and mining industries in France, come a day after oil workers voted to continue the industrial action which has seen six of the country’s seven oil refineries shut their doors over the past three weeks.

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