France’s TotalEnergies extends strike until Tuesday, media reported

PARIS, 10 Oct – PRIME. The strike of the French energy company TotalEnergies will last until Tuesday, it will affect about 15 gas stations, Agence France-Presse reports, citing sources in the union.

It is noted that approximately fifteen gas stations of the Argedis network, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, will be closed not only on Monday, but also on Tuesday.

As a RIA Novosti correspondent reported earlier, on Monday many hours of queues lined up at gas stations on a major highway near Paris due to strikes by TotalEnergies employees. Some gas stations did not have diesel fuel. Drivers complain that they have to wait for their turn for hours, and the French authorities and the United States are blamed for the energy crisis.

Since September 27, a strike by TotalEnergies employees has continued in France demanding a 10% increase in wages, as well as wage indexation for 2022, taking into account record high inflation. The unions later announced an indefinite extension of the strike.

The strike, in particular, affected the largest refinery in France near the city of Le Havre in Normandy, as well as refineries in the communes of Feuzin and Donge, the biorefinery La Mede in the commune of Châteauneuf-lès-Martigues and the Grandpuy fuel storage facility.

France’s Energy Transformation Ministry said on Sunday that nearly 30% of the country’s gas stations were running low on at least one type of fuel.