Following a call to strike of the French hard-left CGT union, some 200 employees gather in front of the refineries of Fos-sur-Mer and La Mede, near Marseille. Strikers demand a wage increase to cover rising inflation as well as “a fair sharing of the wealth,” after Esso-ExxonMobil made hundreds of millions in profits.
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