Posted on 10/11/2022 5:15:34 PM PDT by Nextrush
France will order striking workers at Esso-ExxonMobil refineries and fuel depots back to their posts in order to end shortages causing headaches for millions of motorists, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Tuesday.
Labour unions representing a majority of Esso's overall staff agreed to a salary deal with management on Monday, but the CGT and FO unions, the largest at most refineries, voted to pursue the blockage.
Around a third of France's service stations were still low on, or out of, petrol as strike action at energy giant TotalEnergies and other oil majors entered its third week and wage talks stalled.
Government ministers and President Emmanuel Macron have urged a negotiated resolution to the crisis, but on Tuesday government spokesmam Olivier Veran threatened to force to end the blockades which have paralysed several of France's refineries and oil depots...
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
We haven't even gotten to the challenge of heating homes this winter that France faces over the sanctioning of Russia.
Strangely enough, the first thing I feel when the government tells me to do something, is to tell them to go to hell.
Like any thinking guy, I then evaluate their order and then act accordingly.
Not all government agents are bad, just 98% are.
Ordering them?
“Get back to work.”
“Go **** yourself.”
+1
Govt of France to petroleum workers: WE ORDER YOU BACK TO WORK!
Union workers to Govt of France: F#CK OFF!
and I don’t even like unions.
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