Govt and unions in France in a face-off
By Daniel Flynn and Gerard Bon | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-14 07:59
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Employees of French oil giant Total vote during a general assembly to renew a strike as part of a nationwide protest against pension reform that saw more than a million take to the streets, on Wednesday at the group's refineries in Donges, western France. Frank Perry / Agence France-Presse |
PARIS - French unions voted on Wednesday to extend a rail strike and blockaded supplies from oil refineries and the country's largest fuel port, but the government stood firm on its pension reform plans.
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