Garbage piled up in Paris streets and fuel deliveries were blocked from refineries as workers continued rolling strikes against pension reform but President Emmanuel Macron refused to meet with unions and said the reform must go ahead.
At the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges, western France, CGT union leader Fabien Prive Saint-Lanne blasted Macron for refusing to meet with the unions and said workers had decided to continue their strike at least until Thursday.
"The president refuses to meet with the unions ... his disdain for the world of labour can only sharpen people's anger and will either lead to violence in the streets or to revenge against Macron in the polling booth," he said. Unions are planning more nationwide marches on Saturday. According to an interior ministry note cited by French TV BFM, police expect that 800,000 to one million people will demonstrate.On Tuesday, 1.28 million people took to the streets in demonstrations across the country, the highest turnout in the sixth day of protest against the reform this year.subsidiary Esso, a CGT spokesperson said.
Strike action also reduced French power generation by a 16.6 gigawatts - about 25% of current total power supply - at nuclear, thermal and hydropower plants, CGT said, but consumers felt little impact as state-owned utility EDF managed to compensate for the shortfall. Reporting by Forrest Crellin; editing by John Stonestreet, Jason Neely, Nick Macfie, Louise Heavens and Christina Fincher
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