Strike curbs output at Total’s French refineries
5/17/2016 12:00:00 AM
PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) -- A nationwide strike against a French government labor law reform has cut output at Total's refineries in France, a CGT Union official said on Tuesday.
CGT delegate Thierry Defrense told Reuters that some 63% of members were participating in the strike, cutting production at Total facilities including its 198,000-bpd Normandy refinery.
"The machines are running but very little is coming out, and nothing is leaving the refinery," Defrense told Reuters.
At Total's 219,000-bpd Donges refinery in western France, another CGT union representative Christophe Hiou said "not a drop" of fuel was entering or leaving the plant. Workers are considering further action in coming days, he said.
Total, which operates five refineries in France, was not immediately available to comment.
(Reporting by Bate Felix and Guillaume Frouin; Editing by Laurence Frost)
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