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French trucker talks adjourned until Sunday

PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Crisis talks between French truckers and bosses over a pay dispute adjourned on Saturday with no deal but both sides agreed to resume them on Sunday ahead of planned widespread road blocks, union officials said.

An official at trade union Force Ouvriere said talks would restart at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT) on Sunday, just hours before a deadline set by the unions for a deal on their pay and conditions claim.

"We are called back tomorrow for negotiations. If we stop at 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) tomorrow evening without an agreement, action on the roads will start," Gerard Apruzzese of union Force Ouvriere told journalists.

Unions had called for roadblocks across the country on Sunday evening should negotiations fail, reviving memories of painful industrial action in the 1990s, which paralysed roads and ports, disrupting freight and causing widespread chaos.