The strike for wages in TotalEnergies was extended from Monday to Tuesday and extended to fifteen motorway service stations of the Argedis network, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, according to union sources.
The movement was renewed at the Normandy refinery near Le Havre, at the Flandres fuel depot near Dunkerque and at the La Mède “bio-refinery” (Bouches-du-Rhône), said Thierry Defresne, secretary of the CGT of TotalEnergies European commission, to which AFP joined, according to which 15 service stations of the Argedis network “will be closed” on Tuesday.
Macron evokes “negotiations on the right track”
The movement was also renewed in the two French refineries of the Esso-ExxonMobil group, a meeting with management having resulted “inconclusive”, Christophe Aubert, central union representative of the CGT, said without further details. At the Normandy refinery, around 80 people voted by a show of hands to continue the movement, an AFP correspondent noted.
“The movement continues despite the press release from management. For the time being, he is content to bring forward the NAO meeting (mandatory annual negotiations to 2023, editor’s note) but there is no concrete proposal. We are offered to accept a blank. the check is not acceptable,” Alexis Antonioli, general secretary of the Normandy Total Platform CGT union, told reporters after the strike resumed.
On a trip to Château-Gontier (Mayenne), Emmanuel Macron, for his part, said he wished “that a solution could be found, a quick conclusion of the negotiations” that would be “on the right track”, according to him. The Head of State also called on “all the companies involved and the employees to have a spirit of responsibility”, considering that “the blockade is not a way of negotiating.”
“Mistreated and underpaid employees”
TotalEnergies offered on Sunday to advance the salary negotiations scheduled from November to October (no specific date), provided that the currently blocked refineries and deposits resume work, a “blackmail”, the CGT responded on Monday.
“The CGT Argedis union, a subsidiary of Total, calls for a strike movement starting tomorrow at Total service stations. They are mistreated and underpaid employees. This is a strong indicator of mobilization. Even these employees, isolated in their service stations, seize the movement”, added Alexis Antonioli.
The stations of Paisy (A6, Rhône), Montluel (Ain), Ceignes (A40 motorway, Ain), Lançon-Provence (A7, Bouches-du-Rhône), will be particularly affected, as well as others in the Parisian region, near of Rouen and in the Strasbourg region, according to Mr. Defresne.
Source: BFM TV
