2010-04-12 DAKAR (Reuters) - Gabon's main oil industry trade union called on its members to go on strike from Tuesday after government talks on labour regulations collapsed.
"We have broken off discussions with the authorities," ONEP union spokesman Engadji Alandji Arnaud said by telephone from the capital Libreville. "The strike will be unlimited in time," he added, saying the exact starting time had not yet been decided.
Gabon is Africa's seventh largest producer, with output of some 250,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Foreign investors include France's Total and Canada's Canadian Natural Resources.
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