FRANCE: WORKERS AT A RENAULT MOTOR FACTORIES STAGE TOKEN STRIKE.

Record ID: 342071

  • Title: FRANCE: WORKERS AT A RENAULT MOTOR FACTORIES STAGE TOKEN STRIKE.
  • Date: 5th December 1968
  • Summary: ACTIVITY AT RENAULT FACTORY IN PARIS; SUBURB OF BILLANCOURT; MEN MARCHING FROM FACTORY. Initials JP/V/BOB/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th December 1968 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVAHKGGXYUHMVQL6S5UK6P1CNDF
  • Story Text: FRENCH TRADE UNIONISTS HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL ACTION SINCE THE CRISIS OF LAST JUNE. MEN AT FIVE RENAULT MOTOR FACTORIES IN NORTHERN FRANCE STAGED TOKEN STRIKES TODAY (THURSDAY).

    THE STRIKERS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST GOVERNMENT AUSTERITY MEASURES TO SAVE THE FRANC FROM DEVALUATION AND AT ALLEGED DELAYS BY THE RENAULT MANAGEMENT IN IMPLEMENTING PROMISES MADE DURING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MAY-JUNE STRIKES.

    THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE SIGN THAT TODAY'S BRIEF RENAULT STOPPAGES WOULD SET OFF A CHAIN REACTION SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH SHOOK FRENCH INDUSTRY AND THE NATION EARLIER THIS YEAR. AT THE RENAULT PLANT AT BILLANCOURT IN THE PARIS SUBURBS, THE STRIKERS RESERVED MOST OF THEIR ANGER FOR THE RENAULT MANAGEMENT RATHER THAN PROVOKING ANTI-GOVERNMENT FEELING. THE MAIN TRADE UNION SPEAKERS AT A MEETING HELD BY THE STRIKERS INSIDE THE FACTORY CALLED FOE WAGE RISES, A 40-HOUR WEEK AND OTHER BENEFITS, WITHOUT SINGLING OUT ANY GOVERNMENT MEMBERS. ABOUT 3-THOUSAND OF THE BILLANCOURT WORKERS LEFT THE FACTORY TO MARCH THROUGH THE STREETS FOR HALF AN HOUR. LENGTH OF STOPPAGES AT THE RENAULT FACTORIES VARIED FROM BETWEEN TOW AND FIVE HOURS.
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