French port union calls for weekly strikes
France’s port union, part of the Conf'd'ration g'n'rale du travail (CGT federation), on Thursday called for weekly 24-hour strikes to protest government plans to privatize seven of the nine state-run ports, Reuters reports.
“The government is taking the deliberate risk to hand over especially profitable port terminals to private operators and, above all, foreigners,” a union spokesman is quoted as saying.
The report said about 2,000 employees are affected by the government’s reform plans and many are likely to follow the union orders.
French port union calls for weekly strikes
