Police clear refinery, French unions remain defiant
PARIS (Reuters) – French police cleared access to the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris early on Friday as unions hardened their stance ahead of a final vote on President French gendarmes stand next to the entrance of the Grandpuits oil refinery southeast of Paris October 22, 2010 as striking workers continue to block the refinery. (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier) Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform expected later in the day. Signalling their determination to keep fighting even after a bill raising the retirement age becomes law, the country’s six main unions have called for two more days of action on Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 against the unpopular reform. “The protests are not stopping, we just have…
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