Conditions in Port of Marseille

[Pincus]

Does anyone know how the localized strikes are changing operations by the dock workers in Marseille?

 

News coverage has not been specific to this area.

 

Thanks.

[Fblack]

Marseilles has been hit very hard. Read the following.

 

October 18, 2010 Defiant Marseille, heart of France's social unrest

 

Garbage piled in the streets, oil tankers idling off the coast, lines of anxious drivers at petrol stations: the port of Marseille is making a name for itself as the capital of France's social unrest.... the country's second city and biggest port has claimed center stage with its three-week-old dockworker strike depleting fuel depots just as refinery workers joined nationwide strikes over pensions.

 

Hit by rail strikes, postal strikes, street marches and school disruption this week, on top of a long-running garbage collectors' strike and blockaded docks, the Mediterranean city is getting such a name for resistance to reform.. .

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69H3WW20101018

[N51EC]

Does anyone know how the localized strikes are changing operations by the dock workers in Marseille?

 

News coverage has not been specific to this area.

 

Thanks.

I have only heard that their garbage is not being picked up in Marseille and the town is a total mess

[Pincus]

Appreciate the replies.

 

Hope the vote produces some solutions...