French ports immobilized by a dockers' strike on Friday October 30

French ports will be immobilized on October 30 by a 24-hour strike, at the call of the main dockers' union, the national federation of ports and docks CGT, which represents nearly 90% of employees in the sector in France. “French ports will be at a 95% shutdown” on Friday, Tony Hautbois, general secretary of the CGT of dockers, told AFP, whose representation is 95% among dockers loading and unloading goods, and 87.5% among all port handling employees at the national level. The call was initially launched in a European context by the European dockworkers council (EDC) and at the international level by other dockers' federations, notably in Turkey and India, to say no to the ongoing war and militarization of ports, he said.

At the French level, the CGT dockers contest the “militarization of installations under the leadership of the European Commission” and oppose “the orientations” of the Lecornu government’s draft budget which “destroy our solidarity systems”. In France, the ports of Boulogne, Brest, Dunkirk, Calais, La Rochelle, Le Havre, Rouen, Paris (Haropa), Lorient, Marseille, Roscoff, Bayonne, Bastia, Bordeaux, Réunion, Nice, Ajaccio, Saint-Nazaire, Port-Vendres, Saint-Malo, Cherbourg, Sète, Toulon and Fos sur Mer are affected by the appeal of October 30, before that launched by the main unions for all public and private sector employees to strike on November 5 and demonstrate for wages, employment and public services.

Machine-translated from French