PARIS (Reuters) – France’s CGT and CFDT unions have called on workers at pharma company Sanofi to strike from Thursday to show their protest against a planned sale of a controlling stake in the firm’s consumer health arm, a union official said on Wednesday.
“The strike will start at 5 o’clock (CET), when people start their shifts, and cover the whole of France,” CGT union representative Fabien Mallet told Reuters.
France is considering taking a stake in Sanofi’s Opella business, finance minister Antoine Armand said this week, to allay concerns over the French drugmaker’s plans to sell a 50% stake in it to a U.S. private equity firm.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel. Editing by Dominique Patton)
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