Ivory Coast News

Workers at Ivory Coast's Petroci Launch 72-hour Strike

Employees at Ivory Coast's state oil company Petroci began a 72-hour strike on Tuesday to protest a wave of recent layoffs as union leaders threatened to broaden the walkout to other oil firms if the workers' demands were not met.   "Our employer violated all the rules and refuses to agree to the workers' demands. We have in front of us an employer that doesn't respect anything," said Jeremie N'Guessan Wondje, a Petroci employee and secretary general of the SYNTEPCI union.   (Reporting by Ange Aboa)