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Article published the Sunday 18 December 2011 - Latest update : Sunday 18 December 2011

French airport strike to continue

Lyon's Saint-Exupéry airport
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By RFI

Delays and flight cancellations look set to continue in France’s airports after security personnel voted to continue their strike, which started on Friday.

All flights were cancelled on Sunday morning at Lyon’s Saint Exupéry airport, where the strike has won most support, and management predicted that half the flights would not take off in

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the afternoon.

Unions called for the strike to continue into Monday after a first, abortive meeting with representatives of Sesa, the body representing airport security employers.

The bosses made no concrete proposals on the strikers’ demand for wage rises, just promising to negotiate if the strike ended, union negotiators said, adding that they walked out after only 30 minutes.

The strike has had most effect at Lyon, Paris’s Charles de Gaulle and Toulouse.

Lyon airport management has called on Brink’s, which employs the strikers there, to find a way out of the conflict

tags: Airport - De Gaulle - France - Industrial action - Lyon - Lyons - Paris - Security - Strike - Toulouse - Travel
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Comments (1)

I donnot like to strike in France

dear editors;
We have the right to pass the holidays, but the strike in airport
of france ,it is a very bed situations, our grand parents cannot
meet us on time! the Airport workers have the right for strike but
we are the people of world ,we have the right also to back to the
motherland!To Strike, it must be tell to the people before one month!
Victor 23/12/2011

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