French dock workers have called off the strikes planned across the weekend after unions agreed to resume talks with port authorities.
Unions agree to resume talks on retirement concessions, but warn of further action French dock workers have called off the strikes planned across the weekend after unions agreed to resume talks with port authorities. Dock workers cancelled a four-day strike, due to start today, after the CGT Labour Union agreed to three days of talks on government plans to revise the retirement age. But the union warned it would re-start the strikes if the talks failed to progress. The negotiations at the centre of the dispute focus on early retirement provision. The unions are demanding that the physical nature of the work carried out by dockers and crane drivers should be recognised, allowing them to retire four years before the statutory age. However, the government says dockworkers can only retire two years early. It would have been the fifth weekend in a row that workers at Le Havre, Montoir, Marseilles and Brest would have downed tools.
