Sunday, May 22, 2016

Fuel: the government does not want to hear about “shortage” – The World

In a service station in Rennes on Friday.

The government has tried to reassure, Sunday, May 22, ensuring that there was no risk of fuel shortages in France. Since Friday, the call of several unions calling for the withdrawal of the reform of the labor code, refineries are blocked, resulting in delivery delays and forcing several prefectures to make orders rationing. Of the eight refineries in the country, four are blocked, according to the Government, five, according to unions.

“I ask everyone not to be in this alarmist position that is at the bottom scare. (…) There is no reason today to block deposits and refineries and hinder our compatriots, “ has responded the Prime Minister Manuel Valls from Israel, where he is on an official visit.

“We fully master the situation, I think a number of refineries or deposits that were blocked are released or will be. (…) We are very committed to this there is no shortage in France. “

The Secretary of State for Transport, Alain Vidal, tried to reassure listeners RTL and Europe 1 with numbers:

“of the approximately 12,000 service stations in France, only 816 are out of the total stock, and 800 are partial rupture. In the worst cases in the most affected cities, there is still 60% of stations that work, so we can not talk of shortages. “

” There are also strategic stocks, which we have not touched yet and allow France to have several weeks, many weeks of consumption before it. “

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“The escalation of the conflict does not scare us”

Close to Nantes, where the prefecture has  issued an order restricting fuel consumption.

Government officials were also amazed calls for continuing and even hardening of the strike by asking the road to join the movement, CGT and FO, despite the guarantee that labor bill would not change their exceptional arrangements on overtime. “The labor law will take its course in Parliament and will be adopted definitively in July. No one can doubt for a moment “, repeated Mr Valls. “The escalation of the conflict does not scare us” , added Alain Vidal.

Describing the government concessions to “ significant decline” the CGT transport and national transport and logistics Federation FO-NPCU said that “the first step for our profession should encourage all employees to join the movement”:

“in light of this commitment, negotiation, company by company, and thus reversing the hierarchy of norms is not applicable for road, it will be for everyone the same. “

Manuel Valls did not say if he intended to mobilize the police to remove blockages.



“first we must appeal to the responsibility of all, and then, with composure, intelligence, in the dialogue, I do not doubt that we will succeed in gradually lift these few blocks. “

In Dunkirk, however, demonstrators occupying two fuel depots were dislodged by CRS without there were clashes, in the northern prefecture, which took an order “prohibiting sale, purchase, distribute or transport fuel in transportable container” .

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