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Flit calls for French to be tough with militants •

30th April 1998, Page 9
30th April 1998
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The Freight Transport Association has called on the French government to take a tougher line with trade union militants after British hauliers were called in to rescue railfreight stranded by yet another dispute at the Channel crossing.

The latest in a spate of disruptions was launched last Thursday by a small group of train drivers at the shunting yard of the Frethun freight depot near Calais. E Only two days earlier hundreds of British hauliers were left high and dry when French seamen blockaded Calais for two days—the third time in six months the port has been closed by industrial action.

This time the dispute was over the withdrawal of a sailor's licence after he was convicted of a drug trafficking offence.

According to the FTA, the seamen's strike alone will have cost the haulage industry Lim, but compensation seems unlikely under the terms of the formal procedure agreed with the French government in 1996 as hauliers were not prevented from diverting to other ports.


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