Esso-ExxonMobil management announced on Sunday its intention to bring together “the four trade union organizations representing staff” on Monday, responding to a government call for further action to end the lockdowns.
In a press release published on Sunday night, Esso France said that it was “convinced (that) the quality of the social dialogue established and uninterrupted with the representative organizations of the staff will allow a rapid end to the conflict”, and also calls for an end blockades of refineries and fuel depots, after another day of tension at service stations due to fuel shortages.
Since September 21, a social movement initiated by the CGT has caused the closure of the two Esso-ExxonMobil refineries in France, the one in Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime) and the one in Fos-Sur-Mer (Bouches-du-Rhône). ), to get salary increases.
ongoing negotiations
Under pressure from government officials, French giant TotalEnergies had earlier in the day proposed bringing forward its annual mandatory wage negotiations (NAO) to October, thus responding to an outstretched hand from the CGT, provided the strike ends.
Within Esso-ExxonMobil, these negotiations that will fix salaries for the year 2023 have already started on September 20, instead of the originally planned December 6.
So far they have resulted in a proposal, “which has since been improved”, and provides for a global salary increase “of 6.5% and a participation bonus in the value of 3,000 euros (without participation or profit sharing)” , remember the group. . This proposal, which goes beyond what was foreseen in the “oil industry agreement”, was only signed by the minority union CFE-CGC.
The current proposal “is not enough”
“The 2022 salary agreement and the 2023 proposal combined would mean a global salary increase of 10.7% plus a bonus of 4,000 euros” from the beginning of 2022, adds the group, which recalls that, excluding the participation and distribution of benefits, the The average monthly remuneration of a refinery operator “is around 4,300 euros” including premiums.
The current management proposal, according to the union representative of the CGT, Christophe Aubert, “is not enough to cover galloping inflation, which occurs more in a context of super-profits,” he estimated on Sunday morning with AFP.
Source: BFM TV
