PARIS: Workers voted to end a strike over pay at Total’s Donges refinery in western France yesterday, the oil company said, though industrial action continued at three other plants.
The hardline CGT union led the walkout at the 230,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery near Nantes after rejecting an annual pay rise deal reached with moderate unions.
“The strike action has ended at Donges,” a Total spokeswoman said, without saying why the workers had taken that decision.
Workers were reporting to their posts, she added, declining to say how long it would take to restart production.
Production remained shut down at the three remaining plants - the 339,000-bpd Gonfreville refinery in Normandy, the 155,000 bpd La Mede plant near Marseille and the 119,000 bpd Feyzin plant near Lyon in eastern France.
On Friday, the head of France’s oil industry group told Reuters the strikes would not disrupt fuel supplies for motorists over the Christmas period, as imports from neighbours and stored oil would make up any shortage.
Reuters
