LE HAVRE, France (AP) – The Latest on French labor dispute (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
French drivers are rationing gasoline and hoping that strikes and protests against a government labor bill won’t last too long.
The government has intervened to supply gas stations that had run dry because of strikes, and supplies improved Thursday in some regions but not others. Unions are protesting a bill that makes it easier to fire workers.
In the Paris suburb of La Courneuve, driver Radwan Salleh, 33, said he would only buy 30 euros ($34) worth of gasoline. “We shouldn’t be too greedy.”