LIBREVILLE, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell workers in Gabon on Thursday began an "unlimited" strike on alloperations in the Central African OPEC member, the oil workersunion wrote in a letter to employees.
There was no immediate response from Shell, and the cause ofthe strike was not immediately clear. But the union in Decembercalled for better financial packages for employees andthreatened to down tools.
Gabon is Africa's fourth largest oil producer with an outputof around 220,000 barrels per day dominated by international oilmajors Total and Shell. (Reporting by Wilfried Obangome; Writing by Edward McAllister;Editing by Joe Bavier)