The CGT federation of Ports and Dock announced, this Friday, a new operation to block French seaports from Wednesday to next Friday to protest against the pension reform. A powerful union in this sector, the CGT calls on port workers and dockers to "stop working 72 hours on January 22, 23 and 24" with "" dead ports "operation and massive participation in the mobilizations carried out in the territories", according to a press release.
It also calls for maintaining pickets in front of the seven major seaports (Dunkirk, Le Havre, Rouen, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Bordeaux and Marseille) and to "continue overtime, exceptional shifts".
"100% stake" in the seven major seaports
The operation "dead ports" observed this week, from Tuesday to Thursday, experienced a "100% participation" in the seven major seaports and was followed by several other ports, according to Tony Hautbois, secretary general of the federation . The shutdowns in port activity, occurring on several occasions since the beginning of December, have prevented the number of goods from entering or leaving ports and supply problems in several sectors. The shelves of supermarkets in certain overseas territories as well as fresh food products (milk, cheese, ham, etc.) and the paralysis of activity increasingly worries freight transporters.
The CGT federation of Ports and Docks is demanding a withdrawal from the pension reform. Port workers and dockers do not have a specific scheme but a hardship agreement linked to the collective agreement of their branch which allows them to retire two or three years before the legal retirement age.
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- Pension reform
- Strike
- Harbor
- CGT