Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:06:27 GMT
Oil giant Total has announced the closure of its refinery in northern France but vowed to protect jobs by reassigning the workers to other plants.
As Total promised not to lay off 370 workers at the refinery, about 300 staff members stormed the company's offices in the La Défense business district near Paris on Monday.
Police had to be called in to get the workers out of Total's Dunkirk plant.
Angry workers have been striking since January 12 in order to save their jobs.
Total announced in a statement on Monday that about 240 employees, two-thirds of its staff, will be able to stay on at the site near Dunkirk.
Last month five other refineries joined the work stoppage and fuel pumps ran dry in France.
Paris then pressed Total for measures to safeguard jobs.
The company plans to step down its refining operations by 2013.
DB/HGL
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120403§ionid=351020603
Oil giant Total has announced the closure of its refinery in northern France but vowed to protect jobs by reassigning the workers to other plants.
As Total promised not to lay off 370 workers at the refinery, about 300 staff members stormed the company's offices in the La Défense business district near Paris on Monday.
Police had to be called in to get the workers out of Total's Dunkirk plant.
Angry workers have been striking since January 12 in order to save their jobs.
Total announced in a statement on Monday that about 240 employees, two-thirds of its staff, will be able to stay on at the site near Dunkirk.
Last month five other refineries joined the work stoppage and fuel pumps ran dry in France.
Paris then pressed Total for measures to safeguard jobs.
The company plans to step down its refining operations by 2013.
DB/HGL
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120403§ionid=351020603
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