French Workers Extend Fos-Lavera Strike

French CGT union workers are extending a four-week strike at the Fos-Lavera oil terminal in southern France, a union official told Reuters on Friday.

Hardline CGT members at France's biggest oil port terminal joined the nationwide rolling protest against a government labour reform on May 23, disrupting the loading and unloading of vessels including oil, LNG and chemical tankers.

"The strike has been extended," Pascal Galeote, a CGT union official at the port, told Reuters. He could not say for how long.

The French government on Friday held its first meeting in three months with the CGT union but neither side suggested a breakthrough.

CGT chief Philippe Martinez said the talks did nothing to alter plans for street demonstrations next Thursday that the government says could be banned after violence at recent protests.

Reporting by Bate Felix