The strike movement in several French refineries and fuel depots that began ten days ago was renewed on Sunday in TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil, said the CGT questioned by AFP.
“The movement has been renewed everywhere,” explained Eric Sellini, coordinator of the CGT at TotalEnergies, “in the absence of a response from the general management” to the open letter sent on Saturday to the group’s CEO, Patrick Pouyanné.
While many service stations are still experiencing supply interruptions, the energy giant’s CGT union had proposed, to start negotiations on Monday, limiting its demands to the issue of a wage increase.
radio silence
Since then, “it’s radio silence,” commented Mr. Sellini.
As a result, the group’s largest refinery, based in Normandy, that of Feyzin (Rhône), the “bio-refinery” of La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) and the Flanders fuel depot near Dunkirk (North) they are “still completely at an impasse,” he said.
“If we start negotiations, it will be based on our demands: we are asking for a 10% increase in wages,” and that this be “applied to January 1 and retroactive to the year 2022,” he said. cleared up
The two sites of the American Esso-ExxonMobil in Normandy and Fos-sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhone) are “still in a total stoppage on Sunday”, also indicated the elected CGT Christophe Aubert, who assures that “nothing comes out “. of the refineries” on Sunday.
10% increase
“The strike movement has been renewed in both places and it will probably be like that at 2:00 p.m.,” he explained, awaiting an exchange scheduled for Monday with the group’s leadership.
The CGT demanded larger salary increases on Friday than those proposed by the management, which according to Aubert suggested “a 5.5% increase on average with a bonus of 3,000 euros for 2023.”
An increase “that is not enough to cover galloping inflation, which is more so in a context of super-profits”, estimated Christophe Aubert.
The strikers’ lockouts led to a drop in fuel deliveries, leading to shortages of gasoline or diesel stocks, particularly in the Hauts-de-France and Ile-de-France.
Source: BFM TV
