Fun and games again in France. My newspaper today contained an article regarding the French fuel strike. Apparently, it has little to do with fuel, but more to do with a French union's two-month protest movement against a bill weakling France's worker protections. The fuel industry workers have just joined the fun and are blocking deliveries to all eight of France's oil refineries. This has resulted in 20% of France's gas stations running out of fuel. The unions are now targeting other forms of transportation, including the SNCF rail system and the Paris subways and buses. The CGT union, "whose hard-left flank is driving the labor movement, reacted angrily to overnight police advances on the depot at Fos-sur-Mer", where the protestors were cleared from their blockade of burning tires, allowing fuel trucks that had been delayed for days to resume loading up. Prime Minister Manuel Valla said on Europe-1 radio that "Other sites will be liberated" and "I'm very determined", according the the newspaper article published by the Associated Press.
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