PARIS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Pay talks between employers and trade unions representing a majority of French truckers collapsed without a deal on Sunday, raising the prospect of crippling nationwide road blockades, union sources said.
"The trade unions representing the majority (of truckers) now call for our action to be pursued and our determination is now all the stronger," CFDT union negotiator Joel Le Coq told reporters at the talks just outside Paris.
Witnesses had reported two blockades even before the talks collapsed. Protesters with small lorries blocked access to a large wholesale food market near the northern city of Lille. In the southwest, a blockade was being set up near the headquarters of a group of large transport firms based close to Bordeaux.